(*) 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...

Amadou Mansour Diouf is a curious type of person. Hardly surprising that he discovered and enrolled in a rather demanding e-learning course to find out what Sphere standards were...

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[This article was updated on 24 February 2016] The indicators and guidance notes for the Core Humanitarian Standard have been published in English, Arabic, French and Spanish. The indicators...

Humanitarian practitioners in West and Central Africa commit to grow a robust Sphere network across the region. The first West and Central Africa Sphere Practitioners Workshop gathered 19 participants...

From Gaziantep in Turkey to Calais in France to several German cities, humanitarian standards are taking centre stage in the response to an unprecedented crisis... with no end in...

Hameed Kareem knows first-hand what it means to be in need of humanitarian assistance. As a member of Iraq's Kurdish minority, he and his family experienced internal displacement under...

On 9 October 2015, the CHS Alliance was launched in Geneva. The new organisation is the outcome of the merger of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) International and People...

As the aid community gathers at the Global Consultation for the World Humanitarian Summit in Geneva next week, we all face an unmissable opportunity to ask what it would...

We have a strong vision of a humanitarian world where standards are not only based on experience and evidence, but also built upon a common framework and language, thus...