Every year, the dedicated community of Sphere practitioners offers training workshops on Sphere principles and standards around the world. Many of these trainings take place in an emergency setting...

Experienced Sphere trainers share their wisdom on how to deal with on-the-spot training in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. When a sudden disaster strikes, the capacity of humanitarian...

Children in the Atma camp in northern Syria, which has become temporary home to thousands of people who have fled the violence as the war rages on in the...

Church World Service-Pakistan/Afghanistan (CWS-P/A) has just published Quality and Accountability for Project Cycle Management, a booklet authored by experienced trainers Sylvie Robert and Astrid de Valon. Presented as "a...

The Sphere Project Board has appointed Alistair Dutton as the Project’s Interim Manager. Dutton will take over the position on April 1. Dutton brings over 15 years of experience...

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide, which represented a traumatic watershed for the humanitarian sector. The following interview discusses its impact on the efforts to...

The Sphere Project manager since 2009, John Damerell, is stepping down at the end of next month. In the following interview he reviews the development of the Project over...

When a disaster strikes, the priority for humanitarian organisations is to bring aid to those affected. But as the following story from the Philippines shows, education on quality and...

The Sphere Project office has published Sphere for Assessments, a short guide to help humanitarian staff involved in needs assessments to identify and implement the sections of the Sphere...

Online courses are great, but poor or non-reliable Internet access may make them inaccessible to humanitarian staff in some contexts, particularly in the field. That's why DisasterReady.org - a...