The staff of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) as well as Red Cross / Red Crescent volunteers all over the world now have...

[For new developments on this subject, see HAP, People In Aid and the Sphere Project on the harmonisation of humanitarian standards] The Core Humanitarian Standard will help humanitarian actors...

The Sphere Handbook is alive and well in China. Following the launch of the simplified Chinese version of the Handbook a few months ago, a series of trainings will...

UNOCHA, IHC and the Sphere Project offers a Sphere Training of Trainers course in Arabic in Dubai - UAE.

Every year on 19 August, World Humanitarian Day recognizes those who face danger and adversity to help others. This year the World Humanitarian Day project is a month-long campaign...

Where does humanitarian funding come from? Where does it go? What is it spent on and how does it get there? These and other questions are addressed by the...

Ever wondered how exactly the Sphere Handbook standards and those of the Minimum Standards for Education correspond? These two sets of standards are companions - that is they recognise...

The United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) is offering the Sphere Handbook in Action e-learning course to their own and their worldwide partners' staff at the agency's learning platform. The...

Accountability mechanisms do improve the quality of humanitarian and development aid, a new report shows. Across the humanitarian and development sectors, aid agency accountability to populations affected by crises...

One of the main achievements of the Joint Standards Initiative, a collaborative effort between the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP), People In Aid and the Sphere Project, was the Global...