Maher Alabrsh was a dedicated and gifted humanitarian whose unexpected passing last week has come as a shock, and is an immense loss to the people he served in Syria and the Middle East, and the sector as…

Sphere and CHS Alliance will be co-locating from 1 March 2024 in a move designed to increase effectiveness and collaboration. Both network organisations are part of the Humanitarian Standards Partnership (HSP) and…

An interview with Vlatko Jovanovski, Head of DPPI SEE Secretariat What is the DPPI SEE? The Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Initiative for South-Eastern Europe (DPPI SEE) is an initiative owned by ten national civil protection authorities which…

By Sarah J Ward, Livelihoods and Economic Recovery in Crisis Big news for global humanitarian standards: the well-known Minimum Economic Recovery Standards (MERS) has a new home in the Sphere network and remains in the Humanitarian Standards Partnership…

By William Anderson, Executive Director, Sphere Today, 16 January, marks my first year leading Sphere, and so it’s a good moment to share some reflections of the last twelve months and considerations looking forward to the year ahead.

Sphere’s crisis response Programme for Ukraine and Eastern Europe ran from July 2022 to June 2023. An important objective of the programme was to build a network to sustain Sphere’s presence in the region. This was a great success, with five organisations joining Sphere’s focal point network resulting from outreach activities:…

In August 2021, a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Haiti, leaving thousands of people dead, injured or homeless. Transport and water supply infrastructure was severely damaged and, one month later, more than half a million children still lacked access…

Sphere Training of Trainers (ToT) programmes remain an essential component of Sphere’s global network’s activities. There were/will be at least eight ToT workshops during 2023 – all led by Sphere’s partners. Indonesia 22 to 26 May, hosted…

Using Sphere standards in urban contexts is a new training pack co-developed by Sphere and the German Red Cross. Download the training pack (currently in English only). The pack contains comprehensive training materials to support a…

Sphere’s new self-paced online course is an excellent multimedia introductory guide to using the Sphere Handbook. Follow Sophia, Joseph, Waleed, Daniela, Laila, Esther and Ricardo as they find solutions to their work challenges – from…