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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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.

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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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Watch this video of an interactive theatre that was organised by CWS P/A in Pakistan on Quality and Accountability in Humanitarian Assistance.

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The Feinstein International Center study about the "Humanitarian Agenda 2015 -- Perceptions of the Pakistan Earthquake Response" stated that the Sphere standards seemed to be a particular favorite of the military officers during the Pakistan 2005 Earthquake response. The army specifically requested and received Sphere training. A UN official commented on how the "the colonels started stealing our lingo and quoting IASC policies and Sphere standards." According to another UN official: "The military like standards, guidelines, accountability – they like to be able to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’. That is why they liked the Sphere guidelines. They understand Sphere however as practical guidelines and standards, and not as humanitarian principles. We provided Sphere training to all brigadiers on up. Soon all were carrying their orange books under their arms and calling up agencies to hold them to account because their latrines were not up to standard."

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Mr. Nejabat Safi of CWS-P/A and Mr. Abdul Safi of ECHO Afghanistan show a copy of the Sphere Handbook available in Dari and English at a humanitarian quality and accountability workshop hosted by URD and CWS-P/A in Kabul.

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