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General issues
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Monday, 02 August 2010 |
Institutionalising and training of SPHERE standards in the First Assistance Samaritan Team (FAST) of ASB-Germany (Workers’ Samaritan Federation)
What is FAST?
Those affected by conflict and natural disasters need effective humanitarian assistance. For many years, the foreign aid department of ASB has successfully rendered help to people in need worldwide.
Currently, the ASB expands its activites by a new emergency aid concept:
the First Assistance Samaritan Teams (FAST).
FAST pools the many different ressources of the local and regional ASB branches inside Germany. Their staff can get involved in FAST on a voluntary basis. While on mission, the teams are led by internationally experienced experts of ASB and ASB country offices in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe. FAST focuses on two sectors: WASH and basic healthcare.
Before the team go on mission, they have to pass a thorough theoretical and practical training, including modules on international humanitarian assistance, water/sanitation, water processing, security in the field, medicine/epidemiology. As ASB attaches great importance to the effectiveness and quality of its disaster response operations. Hence the SPHERE minimum standards and guidelines are of particular importance for the training of the FAST volunteers.
On the second day of the 3-day FAST introduction course participants are provided the opportunity to work with the SPHERE standards, key indicators and guidance notes both theoretically in class and practically in a simulation game. For completing the mission participants have to use the SPHERE handbook. The attached documents give information on the scenario, course, and mission. They may serve as a model for designing and implementing your own simulation game.
Should you need any further information about FAST and/or the training concept, please do not hesitate to contact our responsible FAST-coordinator Ms Sharon Blumenthal (phone: +49 221 47605 332, facsimile +49 221 47605 488, email:
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(phone: +49 221 47605 245, facsimile +49 221 47605 488,
email:
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Handout3-Assessment Report 1_E
Handout 4-Assessment Report 2_E
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Tuesday, 13 July 2010 |
Institucionalización de la Carta Humanitaria y las Normas Mínimas Esfera para la respuesta humanitaria en caso de desastre. Guatemala
La Secretaría Ejecutiva de la Coordinadora Nacional para la Reducción de Desastres (SE CONRED) como entidad responsable de "establecer los mecanismos, procedimientos, normas y la coordinación interinstitucional necesaria para prevenir, mitigar, atender y participar en la rehabilitación y reconstrucción por los daños derivados de los desastres de origen natural o provocado", ha decidido institucionalizar la aplicación la Carta Humanitaria y las Normas Mínimas Esfera para la Respuesta Humanitaria en casos de Desastre.
Para ello, desarrollará los mecanismos que permitan:
- Impulsar el cumplimiento, difusión y promoción de los principios establecidos en la Carta Humanitaria y el Código de Conducta relativo al Socorro en casos de Desastre.
Favorecer la observancia de la primacía del imperativo humanitario, que implica la implementación de todas las medidas necesarias para evitar o aliviar el sufrimiento de las personas afectadas por desastres; sabiendo que el derecho a recibir y brindar ayuda humanitaria es un principio fundamental que se sustenta en el ordenamiento jurídico del país, los principios de Esfera y el derecho internacional humanitario. - Impulsar acciones de ayuda humanitaria que no hagan acepción de personas por aspectos étnicos, de género de edad, de adscripción política o religiosa, y que se realice con pertinencia cultural a los diferentes grupos étnicos del país.
- Promover y favorecer la participación de las comunidades vulnerables y las y los afectados por desastres en todo el ciclo de programas y proyectos de reducción de riesgos a desastres, y preparación y respuesta a emergencias. Esto implica el aprovechamiento de las capacidades locales para prevenir y enfrentar desastres, así como reducir vulnerabilidades futuras.
- Coordinar acciones con todo el sistema CONRED y con la Red Humanitaria (RedHum), a fin de facilitar la adecuación al contexto nacional y la implementación de las normas mínimas, indicadores y notas de orientación sobre agua y saneamiento, seguridad alimentaria y ayuda alimentaria, refugios y artículos no alimentarios y servicios de salud, contenidos en Esfera.
- Promover acciones que redunden en el mejoramiento de la calidad y la rendición de cuentas en la ayuda humanitaria, a todo nivel.
- Promover el respeto a la independencia de las organizaciones humanitarias, la facilitación de su trabajo, así como la coordinación conjunta para el manejo de información y acciones de respuesta en situaciones de emergencia.
La SE CONRED se compromete a desarrollar todas las acciones dentro de su alcance para favorecer lo indicado arriba, así como solicitar al Proyecto Esfera el apoyo técnico necesario dentro su alcance para cumplir con estos compromisos.
Dado en Ciudad Guatemala, a los veintiún días del mes de octubre de 2009.
Coordinadores de la RedHum
Ing. Alejandro Maldonado Sr. René Mauricio Valdés
Secretario Ejecutivo Coordinador Residente
SE CONRED Sistema de las Naciones Unidas en Guatemala
Miembros de la RedHum
Representante FAO Representante OCHA
Representante OPS/OMS Representante PMA
Representante PNUD Representante UNFPA
Representante UNICEF Representante Cruz Roja
Representante Acción contra el Hambre Representante ACT Guatemala
Representante CARE Representante CECI
Representante CRS Representante OFDA
Representante Oxfam Internacional Representante Medicus Mundi Navarra
Representante Mercy Corps Representante Plan Internacional
Representante SHARE Representante Save the Children US
Representante Universidad de San Carlos Representante Visión Mundial
Invitados permanentes ante la RedHum
Representante AECID Representante Cooperación Italiana
Representante COSUDE Representante ECHO
Representante USAID
Testigo de Honor
Dr. Rafael Espada
Vicepresidente de la República
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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: 4889 |
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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: 4732 |
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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: 8000 |
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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: 10383 |
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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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