The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is offering the Sphere Handbook in Action e-learning course to its over 2,000 staff across the world. The course...

Nicole Attro's career within the humanitarian sector in West Africa allowed her to discover how Sphere standards function as a common language that enables practitioners to work across countries...

From dilemmas in applying humanitarian principles at field level to organisational obstacles that hinder collective accountability and governmental reluctance to abide by humanitarian standards, a range of concrete challenges...

A new training module on the Core Humanitarian Standard and its usage in conjunction with the Sphere Handbook is now available in Arabic, English, French and Spanish. The Sphere...

The revision process of the Minimum Economic Recovery Standards (MERS) began with a write-shop hosted by the SEEP Network in Washington, D.C. on 27-28 January. The event was attended by...

The Sphere Handbook 2011 edition has just been published in Turkish. With this new version, the Handbook is now available in 26 languages. The translation of the Handbook was...

By Erik Johnson (*) We humanitarians often get it wrong. We hand out food to displaced families, only to see it appear on the market so that they can...

Meeting in Geneva in mid-November, the Sphere Project Board of directors welcomed a new member to the Sphere companion standards family and endorsed moving ahead with the Global Humanitarian...

“The issue of accountability was what made the biggest impression on us,” Elmehdi Ag Wakina says as he recalls the workshop in which he and colleagues first came to...

(*) By Aninia Nadig The contribution of humanitarian standards as a common language to improve collective accountability was emphasised at a workshop attended by key humanitarian actors in Niamey...