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From Crisis to Care: A Conversation about Caritas Moldova’s Sphere-Driven Humanitarian Response
30 November 2024 | SphereSince Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Caritas Moldova has played a crucial role in providing humanitarian aid to displaced people. As a Sphere Focal Point, they have been leading efforts to ensure that aid is... -
Adapting Sphere Standards in Pakistan’s 2022 Flood Response: Lessons from Sindh
30 November 2024 | SphereBy Zohaib Hassan, Norwegian Church Aid Context In 2022, severe floods in Pakistan affected over 33 million people, causing widespread damage. Sindh province was among the worst-hit areas, with major damage to infrastructure, homes, and essential... -
Quality & accountability in humanitarian assistance - how standards support your mandate
18 November 2024 | SphereAn open letter to Mr Tom Fletcher, CMG, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs & Emergency Relief Coordinator, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), from the Humanitarian Standards Partnership (HSP) Dear Mr... -
Statement from Sphere: UNRWA ban threatens humanitarian aid in Gaza
30 October 2024 | SphereIn response to Israel's Knesset proposed restrictive ban on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), William Anderson, Sphere Executive Director, has made the following statement: "Israel was... -
Students assess humanitarian standards in university curricula
02 September 2024 | SphereBy Sarah Bellovich, Yejin Stella An and Yuzuka Motegi Background In response to increasingly complex crises and responses to those crises, humanitarian practitioners must develop the skills they need to provide lifesaving, protective and... -
Applying Sphere Health standards in Colombia
15 August 2024 | SphereBy Alejandro Castañeda Espinel, Sphere trainer and focal point representative (Colombia Sphere Trainers) In August 2015, the government of Venezuela ordered the closure of the border with Colombia. Nine years later, this is creating... -
Sphere in Romania: From classroom to implementation
30 July 2024 | SphereBy Iozefina Teodorescu, Education in Emergences Specialist and Sphere focal point representative, World Vision Romania World Vision Romania joined Sphere’s focal point network in October 2023. Since then, we’ve been promoting... -
New consortium to amplify local voices in defining humanitarian concepts
16 July 2024 | SphereMany humanitarian concepts, such as community engagement, are diversely defined and divergently understood. There is a demand among practitioners for guiding products such as glossaries and dictionaries that articulate clear... -
Humanitarian standards centre stage at 10th edition of HNPW
12 June 2024 | SphereThe Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week(s) is an annual conference which serves as a platform for inter-network collaboration to improve humanitarian preparedness and response. From 400 participants at the first edition... -
New training resource: The HSP Challenge board game
15 May 2024 | SphereThe purpose of The HSP Challenge is to demonstrate in a fun and engaging way the usefulness of different sets of minimum humanitarian standards to diverse actors at each stage of a crisis. Download board game. There is also an...