You will find here short articles/stories written by community members about their own experience from implementation of Sphere in many different contexts and situations. You will find a lot of hints, insights, practical ideas about how to face challenges of Sphere compliance and Sphere implementation in practice.
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Making Sphere accessible to local communities
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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 |
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Sphere in Emergency Response
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 |
Article published on IRIN, 24 August 2009
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More than 200,000 people live in Menik Farm
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Sphere standards at internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in northern Sri Lanka are being undermined due to overcrowding, say aid workers.
The Sphere Project, a collaboration of international NGOs and the Red Cross Movement to improve the quality of disaster response, outlines best practices in food aid, nutrition, health, water and sanitation and emergency shelter provision.
"We are missing Sphere standards by a long way, particularly in the WASH [water, sanitation and hygiene] cluster," David White, Oxfam's country director in Colombo, told IRIN, citing instances where some people were going without water for washing for up to three days.
"We're not even close," said another international aid worker. "With the monsoon rains, it's going to get worse," he warned.Comments (1) | Views: 3554 |
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Sphere institutionalisation
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 |
Artículo escrito por Luis Ramírez (Cruz Roja Venezolana – Seccional Mérida), y publicado en la Revista Voz Cruzrojista, de Cruz Roja Venezolana- Seccional Mérida, en diciembre del 2008. El artículo presenta los orígenes y fundamentos del Proyecto Esfera, y ofrece una breve descripción de la estructura del Manual.
 Versión pdf de este artículo.
El Proyecto Esfera – una herramienta para la humanidad
El sentido humanitario ha formado parte de las personas en las distintas épocas de la evolución del mundo, este sentimiento se ha incrementado con el pasar del tiempo y la aparición de nuevas situaciones que han afectado de manera considerable a la humanidad, como los desastres y conflictos bélicos, situaciones que presentan un aumento en la frecuencia de aparición y mayor complejidad. Del mismo modo el incremento de estos lamentables hechos han proporcionado una creciente diversidad de los actores humanitarios, así como de los agentes que miden el desarrollo de las acciones de socorro prestadas en casos de desastres.Comment this article | Views: 3433 |
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Sphere in Emergency Response
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Friday, 30 January 2009 |
Humanitarian Exchange Magazine, issue number 41, December 2008
by Erik Johnson, Humanitarian Coordinator, DanChurchAid
The Sphere Project was developed by thousands of stakeholders over the course of several years, starting in the early 1990s. It has one aim: to increase the quality of humanitarian assistance based on a set of agreed principles and standards. More recently, the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) has been launched to try to tackle another outstanding challenge in the provision of humanitarian aid, that of ensuring that disaster-affected people have a right to speak and be heard about the assistance they may be receiving. HAP is perhaps the best known amongst several initiatives explicitly trying to address this problem in the humanitarian sphere.Comment this article | Views: 6685 |
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Sphere in Emergency Response
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Friday, 23 January 2009 |
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An inter-agency Quality and Accountability Co-ordinator for Myanmar has been appointed. Comment this article | Views: 8413 |
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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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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: 7963 |
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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: 8886 |
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