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• Venezuela’s National Strategy for Implementing Humanitarian Action boosted by Sphere Training of Trainers programme
  16 December 2021 | Sphere
  By: Flor Piñango, Sphere trainer Venezuela’s Vice Ministry of Risk Management, the National Civil Protection authority and Caritas Venezuela are organizing a series of Risk Management and the Environment workshops as part of a wider Implementing...
• Looking back to move forward into 2022 with Sphere’s global network
  15 December 2021 | Sphere
  Even as the COVID-19 pandemic brought complications and challenges, the Sphere network hosted over 100 learning events during the year, including training programmes in Brazil, Chile, Mozambique, Syria and elsewhere. The new Sphere in Practice...
• Diversity with new Sphere Governing Board and President
  03 December 2021 | Sphere
  Sphere members elected a new governing board and Rita Rhayem as their president on 1 December 2021. “We made a commitment in Sphere’s strategy 2025 to create a more inclusive, diverse and representative board and membership, with more women, more...
• Upcoming elections for a more inclusive, diverse and representative Sphere board
  18 October 2021 | Sphere
  We announced our new membership model earlier this year, creating a flatter structure and offering significant reductions in fees. Now we need your involvement and support to make our governance more inclusive, diverse and representative: more...
• Sphere training advances in Chile following the creation of a new National System for Prevention and Response to Disasters
  21 September 2021 | Sphere
    By Cesar Alvarez Sanchez, Independent Risk Management Consultant and Sphere trainer On August 7, 2021, Law No. 21,364 was enacted by the government of Chile, establishing the National System for Prevention and Response to Disasters...
• Mozambique’s largest ever Sphere training programme gets underway
  21 September 2021 | Sphere
  Over 200 humanitarians in Mozambique will receive Sphere training between September and December 2021 A series of twelve in-person Sphere workshops will be held across all eleven of Mozambique’s provinces. Selected workshop graduates will be...
• What do we know about users of humanitarian standards?
  19 July 2021 | Sphere
  By Anne Radday and Nola Jenkins In 2021, the SEADS Project team will draft the first ever standards to support agricultural livelihoods in emergencies. Before we began, we wanted to better understand the preferences of the future users of SEADS....
• Armed conflict and volcanic eruptions in Goma, DRC: The relevance of humanitarian standards
  23 June 2021 | Sphere
  Jonas Habimana is the executive director of the Bureau d’Informations, Formations, Échanges et Recherches pour le Développement (BIFERD), a Sphere focal point in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and also a board member of Sphere. Following...
• With a heavy heart – Memories of Simon Russell (1967 – 2021)
  22 June 2021 | Sphere
  We remember our wonderful friend and colleague Simon Russell who recently passed away in the UK. Simon worked with many organisations around the world including ICMC, Refugee Review Tribunal, ProCAP and most recently with UNHCR as the...
• How to use Sphere standards throughout the humanitarian programme cycle
  22 June 2021 | Sphere
  The Sphere Handbook’s blend of ethical, rights-based approach and technical standards makes it one of the best-known and respected reference documents in the humanitarian sector. Its usefulness in assessing situations and needs; for writing...