In a remarkable international
initiative aimed at improving the effectiveness and accountability of
disaster response, the Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards
in Disaster Response sets out for the first time what people affected
by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian assistance. The
aim of the Project is to improve the quality of assistance provided to
people affected by disasters, and to enhance the accountability of the
humanitarian system in disaster response.
This new edition of
the handbook (2004) has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking into
account recent developments in humanitarian practice in wat/san, food,
shelter and health, together with feedback from practitioners in the field,
research institutes and cross-cutting experts in protection, gender, children,
older people, disabled people, HIV/AIDS and the environment. The revised
handbook is the product of an extensive collaborative effort that reflects
the collective will and shared experience of the humanitarian community,
and its determination to improve on current knowledge in humanitarian
assistance programmes.
Click on the left hand menu to navigate the
handbook and do a full text search. You can also open the pdf file (best
for printing) either by chapter or in full.
In this section you will also find information
on how to order the book and the other materials. When you have used this
new edition of Sphere Handbook, we are eager to get your comments and
suggestions, based on your personal use, through our feedback form.
For the moment you can still access electronically
to the 2000 edition of the handbook in Portuguese and Swahili.
The Arabic and Russian versions of the 2004 edition are also now available
online.
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