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Humanitarian standards-setting initiatives hold historic meeting
The Boards of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP), People In Aid and the Sphere Project met for the first time ever in Geneva on 25 April. This was a...
Posted: 10th May 2012
“It’s the rights of people affected by disaster or conflict that bring us together”
In the following interview Erik Johnson, Chair of the Sphere Project Board, reviews recent and future developments in the Project and talks about how and why humanitarian standards are...
Posted: 10th May 2012
Horn of Africa: Voices of affected communities
A central objective of an October 2011 - January 2012 Joint Standards Initiative deployment to the Horn of Africa was to ensure that the voices of those affected by...
Posted: 2nd May 2012
Work and advocacy for humanitarian quality and accountability in Asia
In 2010, severe floods affected some 20 million people in Pakistan. The subsequent recovery and rehabilitation phase was characterized by high demands for technical assistance on humanitarian quality and...
Posted: 16th March 2012
Putting humanitarian standards and guidelines in one place
The web portal JointStandards.org has now launched, giving humanitarian workers the opportunity to view and use guidelines and guidance from the humanitarian sector on one website. A simple site...
Posted: 14th March 2012
Update on the Joint Standards Initiative
Following our last communiqué in December 2011, the chairs and directors of the Sphere Project, the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) and People In Aid would like to share an...
Posted: 7th March 2012