Written by: A. Quintus, Asst. Manager – R&R, Caritas Sri Lanka
We wish to express our views on the Sphere Project and its benefits for the IDPs throughout the past decade. We know that these sphere standards have enable to fulfill the minimum requirements of the affected people by conflict and disaster with right to life with dignity, right assistance to right people at right time with transparency.
Caritas Sri Lanka has started to use sphere standards before the beginning of the tsunami rehabilitation programmes. All our programmes are defined respecting the sphere standards. In any case, SPHERE standards are being mainstreamed within our organization as they are widely used by the different stakeholders in the humanitarian field and they enable us to improve the coordination, as well as generally improving the quality of humanitarian programmes.
Sphere follow up actions in Sri Lanka is facilitated through CHA (Consortium for Humanitarian Agencies). Consultation process is in progress. Now sphere is translated into native language Sri Lanka (Sinhalese) and it is also in the process of translating into Tamil.
Recommendations
Sphere has to be popularized among all the humanitarian Agencies working in disaster response.
Technical jargons have to be familiarized among the common people.
Technical terminologies should be introduce in very simple manner.
Create awareness among the security forces about what is sphere and the purposes it serves.
Sphere to be implemented also through the state as a government sponsored programme.
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