ABSTRACT
Response represents the management of diversion suspicions and, therefore, potentially materialised diversion risk. Investigations are technical activities that involve the management of a range of risks and should not be undertaken lightly. A key benefit is that detection informs good risk assessment and control planning. When a risk is complicated – even invisible, in some respects – incidents become a particularly important contributor to the International Non-Government Organisation’s (INGO) picture of its threats and vulnerabilities. Programme anomalies are unusual events, relationships, and approaches in the life of an INGO or a particular country programme – perhaps transactions with unexpected people or companies, or odd trends. The primary way that an INGO should aim to collect a report is through the management line. This heightens the chance that it will be made early, often provides more investigation opportunities, extends the INGO’s ability to protect the reporter, and contributes to an anti-diversion culture.
