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...

Neil Casey, current chair of the Joint Standards Initiative, announced on 3 July that Robert Schofield has been appointed as the full time Joint Standards Initiative Coordinator to begin...

The Sphere Project launches a new version of its logo to strengthen the brand's visual identity. "We felt the logo needed refreshing after many years of serving us well,"...

The need for better engagement with affected communities is the "most salient finding" highlighted by a report on the humanitarian response to the crisis in the Horn of Africa....

The Sphere Handbook's recommendations for the management of chronic diseases in humanitarian crises were featured at a panel discussion during the 18-20 April 2012 Geneva Health Forum. A platform...

In the following interview Erik Johnson, Chair of the Sphere Project Board, reviews recent and future developments in the Project and talks about how and why humanitarian standards are...

The Boards of the Humanitarian Accountability Partnership (HAP), People In Aid and the Sphere Project met for the first time ever in Geneva on 25 April. This was a...

A central objective of an October 2011 - January 2012 Joint Standards Initiative deployment to the Horn of Africa was to ensure that the voices of those affected by...

In 2010, severe floods affected some 20 million people in Pakistan. The subsequent recovery and rehabilitation phase was characterized by high demands for technical assistance on humanitarian quality and...

The web portal JointStandards.org has now launched, giving humanitarian workers the opportunity to view and use guidelines and guidance from the humanitarian sector on one website. A simple site...