Sphere welcomes 14 new listed trainers during 2023

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 by the Indonesian Society for Disaster Management (MPBI), Sphere focal point for Indonesia.
• Poland 19 to 23 June, hosted by Save the Children and the Humanitarian Leadership Academy (HLA), Sphere focal point for Poland, with the active support of FIHM and the Sphere office.
• Nepal 10 to 12 September, hosted by HEARD Nepal, for provincial municipality officials, facilitated by Mohammad Shariful Alam (listed Sphere trainer) and Sabina Yasmin.
• Thailand 28 Sep to 3 Oct, hosted by Community World Service Asia (CWSA), Sphere focal point for Pakistan and regional partner for Asia, with the active support of the Sphere office.
• Canada 10 to 13 October, hosted by Humanitarian Response Network of Canada (HRN), founding member of Sphere
• Japan 5 to 8 December, hosted by Japan Quality and Accountability Network (JQAN), Sphere focal point for Japan.
• Ethiopia 11 to 14 December, hosted by The Dutch Relief Alliance (DRA), SOS Children’s Villages Ethiopia (SOS CVE) and the Accountability to the Affected Populations Working Group (AAP-WG)
• Turkey (details TBC)

Sphere ToT graduates are invited to apply for listing in the international trainer database on Sphere’s main website. Sphere’s listed trainers must provide evidence that they meet a set of criteria, including that they have participated in a ToT programme, possess an excellent understanding of Sphere, and have experience of facilitating adult learning. It is also important to recognise the hundreds of people that facilitate Sphere learning around the globe who are not listed in the central database. If you are looking for a Sphere trainer, please search the central database, but also contact your national (or regional) Sphere focal point(s) and/or contact the Sphere office at learning@spherestandards.org to help you identify unlisted trainers near you. (You may also consider trainers listed by other Humanitarian Standards Partnership partners.) Congratulations to the following people who became listed Sphere trainers in 2023! We invite you to contact them directly if you would like to engage them for your upcoming courses or workshops.

Avianto Amri, Indonesia	Ertuğrul Usta, Turkey	Dina Volynets, Ukraine	Bessiou Neya, Burkina Faso	Lei Guangqing, China
Cui Yazhou, China	Gabriel Godoy Cyrilo, Brazil		Ricardo Treno, Portugal	Ece Yılmaztürk, Turkey
Stephen Blakemore, United Kingdom	Fu Yu, China	Hassan Ali Deeb, Syrian Arab Republic	Boureima Ouedraogo, Burkina Faso	Felicity Fallon, Switzerland

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Sphere would like to take this opportunity to thank all listed and unlisted, new and established Sphere facilitators around the world for their commitment and dedication!