News and Practice
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Sphere India Unified Response Strategy (URS): a model to take Sphere forward |
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Sphere in Emergency Response
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Monday, 24 November 2008 |
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Sphere India Unified Response Strategy (URS) is an action-based project to build common understanding in different stakeholders for an organized and coordinated response. The vision is to bring various stakeholders at state level on a common platform, map the resources and capacities to identify gaps and overlaps and gradually build a common understanding for common assessment, common response plans, common monitoring and evaluation wherever possible. URS was conceived as an Inter agency concept from numerous discussions and debates among the INGO-NGO-UN community hosted by Sphere India. Agencies intended to shorten disaster response time, clarify roles and responsibilities, streamline processes and minimize duplication of relief efforts through a well-coordinated mechanism.
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Sphere makes further headway in the Gulf |
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Training News
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Thursday, 20 November 2008 |
A three-day training in Doha in November 2008
 From 1-3 November 2008, Qatar Charity organised a three-day intensive disaster response training for its own staff and worldwide partners. The training included introduction and familiarisation with the Sphere standards. Besides Sphere, the training included modules on exploring the most efficient means and practices of emergency and disaster response, resources and needs assessment during disasters, introduction to Geneva Conventions and Protocols, introduction to international humanitarian law. Members of the UNHCR with focus on the Middle-East also shared how they work with partners.Comment this article | Views: 437 |
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Sphere 2004 Handbook in Somali is now available |
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Materials and Translations News
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Monday, 17 November 2008 |
The Sphere Project Handbook was translated into Somali. The translation was coordinated by CARE Somalia.
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Sphere and INEE sign a Companionship Agreement |
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Newsflash
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Thursday, 23 October 2008 |
 The Sphere Project and the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) are pleased to announce the signature of a “Companionship Agreement”.Comment this article | Views: 1908 |
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Sphere incorporated in Spain’s Humanitarian Action Strategy Plan |
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Taking ownership of the Sphere handbook
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008 |
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The Spanish Government has incorporated Sphere in its recently developed Humanitarian Action Strategy for Spanish Development Cooperation. The inclusion of Sphere standards in the planning and project cycle systems constitutes a priority action within specific objective 1 of the Strategy to improve the capacity and efficiency of Spanish Cooperation’s humanitarian response. Comment this article | Views: 1339 |
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Tool for estimating nutrients in rations in line with Sphere Key indicators |
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Food Security, Nutrition and Food Aid issues
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
A latest version of the NutVal 2006 spreadsheet application for planning and monitoring the nutritional content of general food aid rations has been launched in line with the Sphere Project Key indicators for Nutrition. The program is in a Excel Spreadsheet (Version 2) and was released in August 2008. The program was developed by WFP with input from University College London and with financial support from WFP, UNHCR, UCL Futures, and the IASC Global Nutrition Cluster. Comment this article | Views: 2931 |
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Sphere 2004 Handbook in Azerbaijani is now available |
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Materials and Translations News
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Thursday, 28 August 2008 |
The Sphere Project Handbook was translated into Azerbaijani and published by Fovgal-Oxfam GB/Azerbaijan partner organisation in 2008 in Baku, Azerbaijan. Comment this article | Views: 3959 |
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I Reunión de Programas Integrales, Región Andes – Llanos, Venezuela, 11-12 de julio de 2008 |
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Sphere institutionalisation
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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
El 11 y 12 de julio del 2008, se llevo a cabo en la ciudad de Barinas – Venezuela, la “I Reunión de Programas Integrales, Región Andes – Llanos” de la Cruz Roja Venezolana, con la participación de 25 personas de los diferentes estado que conforman la región, Mérida, Táchira, Barinas, Apure y Trujillo, con la finalidad de la revisión y actualización de los Planes Operativos Locales (POL), de las Direcciones de Socorro, Salud y Bienestar Social, Voluntariado y Juventud, de esta prestigiosa institución.
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Echoes of Accountability from the field |
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Making Sphere accessible to local communities
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
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Watch this video of an interactive theatre that was organised by CWS P/A in Pakistan on Quality and Accountability in Humanitarian Assistance. Comment this article | Views: 4589 |
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Introduction to the Humanitarian Charter in Tahuna, the Philippines, 15-18 July 2008 |
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Training News
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
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From 15 to 18 July 2008, in Tahuna H.Iskandar Leman facilitated an emergency response training for 27 participants (6 among them female) consisted of pre-dominantly local government personnel, Red Cross, local NGOs and a representative of local Christian church. The Sphere Project Humanitarian Charter, Code of Conduct and the Common Standards was introduced to participants. The organizing committee was the local NGO, Perkumpulan Kelola and financially supported by Oxfam GB.
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Sphere graduates meet in Pakistan and Afghanistan to share their lessons learned, June 2008 |
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Training News
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Thursday, 24 July 2008 |
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Two Sphere graduates Lessons Learned Workshops were conducted by CWS P/A in Islamabad, Pakistan on 24th June 2008 and in Kabul, Afghanistan on 26th June 2008 to explore and document the CWS Sphere Focal Point Project beneficiaries’ lessons learned and best practices based on their experiences.
The CWS P/A’s Sphere Focal Point Project (SFP) has been operating in Pakistan since shortly after the devastating earthquake of October 2005. The project aimed to give all relevant agencies the opportunity to build their awareness and practice in relation to Sphere standards, so that their work is representative of recognized best practice in humanitarian work. Over 600 training participants have benefitted from the Sphere Focal Point Project from 2005 to present. Comment this article | Views: 3352 |
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