Consultations on the Future of Sphere after 2004

- Application for Sphere Board Membership

- How the current Sphere Board meets membership criteria

- Update on the future of Sphere (October 2004)

- Update on the future of Sphere (June 2004)

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Final report of the consultation process on the future of Sphere
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The meeting reports of four consultations were received by the Sphere Project Office after the overall report had been finalised. For transparency, the individual meeting reports can be viewed in full in the present addendum in their original languages.

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What did the process involve?	Calendar of meetings in 2004
Inter-Agency Meetings Community based consultations Semi-structured interviews Web based discussions

What did the process involve?

Given the short timescale, the approach was low key but aiming to reach as many people with as wide a geographical spread as possible. Methods included:

Inter-Agency Meetings,hosted by an interested agency, following the format proposed in the Organizers' Guidelines and Facilitators’ Guidelines. Consultations have taken place in the following kind of settings:

• meetings facilitated for agencies at a national level, or working in one part of a country
• regional meetings
• during meetings that were already taking place, by requesting time (up to a day) in the agenda

Community based consultations with disaster-affected populations where this is appropriate. These consultations will be led by organizations who already have a good knowledge of the community, and have worked with them on Sphere before.

Semi-structured interviews by telephone or face to face, with key people who have had a close involvement with Sphere. ‘Key people’ were chosen on the basis that they fit one or more of the following criteria: key involvement in creation or development of Sphere; known to hold strong and well-informed views on Sphere; have particular experience of using Sphere at field level.

Web based discussions in French, Spanish and English, in collaboration with Aid Workers Network (AWN):
a. Consultations in response to articles sent out via the AWN and Sphere listserves
b. Interactive web page hosted by AWN, linked to the Sphere website, to complement the above
c. Feedback on draft of results of consultations posted on the Sphere website

Calendar

The table below shows consultation meetings that took place in 2004:

When?	Where?	Organiser	Venue
16 February	Geneva, Switzerland	The Sphere Project	The Sphere Project
28 February	Luanda, Angola	Save the Children UK	Save the Children UK
29 February	Rome, Italy	Gianni Rufini, Fields
8 March	Bam, Iran (discussions on Sphere's future included in an interagency meeting)	Nazanin Kazemi, ICRI	International Consortium for Refugees in Iran
19 March	Geneva, Switzerland	Yvonne Klynman, IFRC	International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
25 March	Sydney, Australia	ACFID	Caritas Australia
4 April	Maseru, Lesotho	World Food Programme	World Food Programme
7 April	Dubai	World Vision International	World Vision International
12 April	Orissa, India (community level consultation)	Sphere India
15 April	Riga, Latvia	IFRC Regional Delegation	IFRC Regional Delegation
20 April	Lima, Peru	ACT Peru
21 April	San Salvador, El Salvador	Sphere Working Group in El Salvador
26 April	Cochabamba, Bolivia*	Save the Children Alliance
27 April	The Hague, Netherlands	NOVIB/Oxfam Netherlands	NOVIB/Oxfam Netherlands
28 April	Budapest, Hungary	IFRC Regional Delegation	IFRC Regional Delegation
29 April	Nairobi, Kenya	Inter-agency group	Oxfam GB
29 April	Honduras	Sphere Working Group in Honduras	National meeting
30 April	Harare, Zimbabwe	IFRC Regional Delegation	IFRC Regional Delegation
30 April	Tegucigalpa, Honduras	Sphere Working Group in Honduras	Regional meeting
3 May	Manila, Philippines	ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management
3 May	Kabul, Afghanistan	ACBAR / Norwegian Church Aid
4 May	Managua, Nicaragua*	Save the Children Alliance
4 May	Gujarat, India	Sphere India and CARE India
6 May	New Delhi, India*	Sphere India
17 May	Jakarta, Indonesia	Mercy Corps
24 May	Washington DC, USA*	InterAction	InterAction

* This reports could not be reflected in the consultation report. Their conclusions were presented to the Sphere Management Committee orally. For transparency, the individual meeting reports can be viewed in full in the present addendum in their original languages.