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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... -
In memory of Maher Alabrsh (1989 – 2024)
02 May 2024 | SphereMaher 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 a whole. We had the... -
New working arrangement to bring closer collaboration between CHS Alliance and Sphere
01 March 2024 | SphereSphere 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 have been... -
Civil protection meets humanitarian standards: DPPI SEE’s journey to becoming Sphere’s regional partner for South-Eastern Europe
30 January 2024 | SphereAn 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... -
Minimum Economic Recovery Standards now led by Sphere and the Humanitarian Standards Partnership
19 January 2024 | SphereBy 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...