We are in the thick of the Joint Standards Initiative consultation that was launched in December 2012 and ends on 1 March 2013. An online survey has been widely...

The Boards of three standards-setting initiatives — the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP), People In Aid and the Sphere Project — met at the end of November and renewed their...

The Sphere Project office will be hosted by the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA) as of 1 April 2013. The Board of the Sphere Project made the decision...

Three standards-setting initiatives — the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP) International, People In Aid and the Sphere Project — have launched a process to seek greater coherence for users of...

The Sphere Project office is finalizing work on a new e-learning course that will allow humanitarian workers to undertake an ambitious training programme on Sphere principles and standards in...

Officially launched in mid-1997, the Sphere Project has just turned 15. To mark the occasion, we talked with one of its originators. Peter Walker's first experience of humanitarian work...

The ground breaking collaboration to transform the quality and accountability system is gathering pace. Robert Schofield has now started as the Joint Standards Initiative (JSI) Coordinator, having taken his post...

Organizing trainings on humanitarian quality and accountability has become easier in Kenya since the opening of a new resource center in Nairobi by the Inter-Agency Working Group (IAWG). One...

The English version of the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response is now available in Braille. This makes its content accessible for visually impaired people. The Braille...

The Sphere Handbook "Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response" is now available online as a micro website. "With this new micro website, the full content of the...