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Humanitarian Agenda 2015--Perceptions of the Pakistan Earthquake Responsehot!

04.03.2008

The devastating earthquake that struck northern Pakistan and the disputed territory of Kashmir in October 2005 killed approximately 75,000 people, injured 70,000 more, and left an estimated 3.5 million people homeless. The subsequent relief effort, which was led by the Pakistan Army and included local citizens, national and international aid agencies, US and NATO military forces, and even Islamic militant groups, was one of the most effective responses ever to a natural disaster of this magnitude. Andrew Wilder of the Feinstein International Center examines the earthquake response in the latest in a series of the Center’s reports on the state of humanitarianism.

This new Humanitarian Agenda 2015 study, “Perceptions of the Pakistan Earthquake Response,” records the perceptions of both aid providers and aid recipients in the earthquake-affected areas of Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir. In particular, Wilder examines perceptions regarding the following four issues: the universality of humanitarian principles (including the Sphere Project), the impact of the War on Terror on the earthquake response, the role of the Pakistan Army in leading the response, and the security of humanitarian aid workers.

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Ph.D. Thesis, Needs Assessment for international humanitarian health assistance in disasters, 2007hot!

22.02.2008

By: Johan von Schreeb, Surgeon, Researcher in Disaster Medicine

Karolinska Institutet, Department of Public Health Sciences

Many references are made to the Sphere Project in this Ph.D. Thesis.

Homepage: http://diss.kib.ki.se/2007/978-91-7357-375-7/thesis.pdf

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Birthing Spherehot!

16.01.2008

By Peter Walker, Susan Purdin, Disasters 28 (2), 2004, pp. 100–111

Homepage: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.0361-3666.2004.00246.x

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انعكاسات على الميثاق الإنسانيhot!

18.06.2007

بقلم: شون لوري يعد الميثاق الإنساني الإطار التحليلي الأساسي الذي تستند إليه المحتويات الأخرى لدليل اسفير إلا انه ليس مفهوما كما ينبغي، سواء من المنظور الفردي (ما هي المهارات المطلوبة لاستخدامه في الميدان؟) أو من المنظور التنظيمي (ما هو مستوى الأولوية الذي يجب أن تعطى للميثاق من قبل المنظمة ؟) .

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Children and the Sphere standard on mental and social aspects of healthhot!

29.03.2007

Written by: Jodi Morris, Mark van Ommeren, Myron Belfer, Shekhar Saxena and
Benedetto Saraceno

Disasters, 2007, 31(1): 71−90. © 2007. Journal compilation © Overseas Development Institute, 2007.
This paper offers a child-focused review of the evidence for the intervention indicators described in the Sphere minimum standard on mental and social aspects of health for use in acute emergencies. This piece of policy was chosen for review because the Sphere Handbook presently represents, across disciplines, perhaps the most widely distributed, basic humanitarian aid text.

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IASC, Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Actionhot!

02.03.2007

Women, Girls, Boys and Men - Different Needs, Equal Opportunities, IASC, December 2006

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Politicization of humanitarian aid and its effect on principles of humanity,impartiality, neutralityhot!

22.02.2007

This is a Master degree Paper developed by Thorsten Volberg, email: Thor.Volberg@gmx.net for the European Master’s Degree in International Humanitarian Assistance Ruhr-University of Bochum, Academic Year 2005/2006. The paper is published with ISBN: 978-3-8364-1183-7.

This paper examines the difficult realities in a heterogenic humanitarian environ­ment, by addressing all the complex legal and political issues surrounding an emergency, including the impact of external actors like donors, host governments, and armed forces. It therefore provides a realistic understanding of the possibili­ties and limits of traditional principles, rethinks their value in current crisis re­sponses, and delineates the attempt to create and clarify new ones. In this regard, the paper further analyzes the ‘Sphere’ process, which commits participating agencies to act in accordance to these principles, on how far it is taking political influences on humanitarian aid into consideration, and can thus actually be seen as a reasonable guideline for relief organizations in the 21^st century.

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Raising standards in emergency relief: how useful are Sphere standards for humanitarian assistancehot!

22.02.2007

By: André Griekspoor, Steve Collins

BMJ VOLUME 323 29 SEPTEMBER 2001

Copyright © 2001, BMJ

Homepage: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/323/7315/740

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HPN Humanitarian Exchange Magazine 17, October 2000hot!

16.01.2007

Four articles related to Sphere in this edition of the Humanitarian Exchange Magazine:

• Sphere at the End of Phase II: by Sean Lowrie
• Using Sphere: Oxfam in West Africa: by Françoise Mompoint, Regional Humanitarian Assistance Coordinator for West Africa, Oxfam GB
• Sphere in India: Experiences and Insights: by Mihir R. Bhatt, Director, Disaster Mitigation Institute, Ahmedabad, India
• Gendering Sphere: by Carol Schlitt, Consultant to the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, New York

Homepage: http://www.odihpn.org/download.asp?id=2209&ItemURL=documents/humanitarianexchange017.pdf

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A Developmental Approach to Working in Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Responsehot!

09.01.2007

The aim of this paper is to inform and provide guidance to Concern Universal offices about best practice thinking in the sector of humanitarian work, with specific regard to emergency prevention, preparedness and response.

Prepared by Concern Universal: Katie Jefferson email: katie.jefferson@concern-universal.org

For further information, please contact Katie Jefferson or Paul O'Hagan, email: paul.ohagan@concern-universal.org

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Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencieshot!

07.12.2006

The Operational Guidance was first produced by the Interagency Working Group on Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies in 2001. This Working Group included members of the Infant and Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IFE) Core Group, an inter-agency collaboration concerned with the development of training materials and related policy guidance on infant and young child feeding in emergencies.

Sent by: Marie McGrath, email: marie@ennonline.net

Homepage: http://www.ennonline.net

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How the Sphere Project came into beinghot!

13.09.2006

Working Paper 215

A Case Study of Policy-Making in the Humanitarian Aid Sector and the Relative Influence of Research

Margie Buchanan-Smith

July 2003

Overseas Development Institute

111 Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7JD, UK

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ODI Journal of Disaster Studies, Sphere special issue, June 2004, Volume 28hot!

13.09.2006

Six papers in this edition of Disasters Journal are to do with Sphere Project.

Homepage: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/disa/28/2

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Oxfam International briefing - Causing Hunger an Overview of the Food Crisis in Africa.hot!

11.08.2006

Homepage: http://www.oxfaminternational.org

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Handbook for community counselor trainershot!

30.07.2006

This handbook is meant for trainees and disaster managers to develop psychosocial services to help people cope with the emotional effects of disasters.

For the latest edition email contact@adeptasia.org 

Homepage: http://www.adeptasia.org/

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