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Launch of the Core Humanitarian Standard

A majority of those who voted in the consultation (or “straw poll”) were in favour of publishing the CHS. The consultation was open to both organisations and individual humanitarian staff and received 369 responses from 82 countries.

A report on the feedback received will be available on the CHS website soon and the final version of the CHS will be available there in early December.

In the meantime, it has been submitted for endorsement to the boards of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP), People In Aid and the Sphere Project, all of which will meet separately during the first half of November. (See  in New Delhi.)

Hosted by the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA), the CHS launch event is being organised by HAP, People In Aid and the Sphere Project together with the Steering Committee for Humanitarian Response (SCHR), a grouping of nine of the most influential humanitarian organisations.

In addition to launching the CHS, the Copenhagen event will also serve as a platform for the presentation of the findings of the SCHR certification review process, which took place in parallel to the CHS development.

The event should equip participants with an informed view of both the CHS and the SCHR certification review and their implications for the sector, in order to inform decision-making within their organisations. A detailed agenda for the event will be available later on. 

The purpose of the CHS is to contribute to a still better humanitarian response. As a single core humanitarian standard that should be simple and easy to use, the CHS aims to benefit the whole sector by increasing consistency in the application of sectoral standards.

It consists of a framework through which organisations commit to quality operational approaches and ways of working. It outlines policies, processes, procedures and practices needed in order to be accountable to crisis-affected communities. The standard is open to any organisation to use and its adoption is voluntary.

  • Additional information on the CHS: CoreHumanitarianStandard.org
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