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• New e-learning course helps humanitarian actors become Sphere Champions
  23 January 2019 | Sphere
    A new Sphere e-learning course will help users gain the skills needed to promote Sphere within their own network and to leverage improved quality and accountability for people affected by crisis and disaster. The one-hour...
• Handbook translations increase global access to the Sphere standards
  23 January 2019 | Sphere
    Following the launch of the Sphere Handbook in November, Sphere’s partners are already at work translating the Handbook into their own languages. These efforts will bring the Handbook to more humanitarian professionals and communities...
• Addressing the power imbalance in the humanitarian sector
  21 January 2019 | Sphere
    How can humanitarian standards support the empowerment of local actors, including affected people? With the localisation agenda receiving much attention and the 2018 Sphere Handbook focusing even more on using standards in context at...
• 2018: A year with Sphere
  07 January 2019 | Sphere
  Dear Sphere friends, As a very busy and successful 2018 draws to an end, we would like to thank you for your support and engagement over the past many months. The Sphere network has been growing stronger each year and 2018 was no exception. You...
• 2018 Handbook launch: past and future of humanitarian standards
  28 November 2018 | Sphere
      “When we started it, we had a real hard time publishing the Handbook”, said Peter Walker, co-founder of the Sphere movement. “It now exists in more than 30 languages. The humanitarian community has taken it, run with it, and...
• Sphere General Assembly elects new President, Executive Committee
  27 November 2018 | Sphere
    The Sphere General Assembly met in Geneva, Switzerland, on 5 November. The meeting was aimed at welcoming the new members who joined Sphere during 2018, as well as providing new governance for the organisation. The Assembly,...
• Sphere Handbook 2018: New edition out on 6 November 2018
  24 October 2018 | Sphere
    The Sphere Handbook is the oldest initiative in the field of humanitarian standards. It has been field-tested over twenty years and  regularly updated to ensure it remains fit for purpose in a changing world. What does not change is...
• Local actors and affected populations at the heart of their own recovery: how can humanitarian standards contribute?
  19 September 2018 | Sphere
    Can humanitarian standards contribute to empowering local actors and affected populations during humanitarian response and recovery phases? Aninia Nadig, Sphere Advocacy and Policy Manager, discussed this question during a panel...
• Sphere General Assembly to welcome new members, elect new Executive Committee
  05 September 2018 | Sphere
  Sphere will convene an extraordinary session of its General Assembly during the week of 5 November to welcome new Sphere members who have joined since the launch of the membership campaign in June. The General Assembly will also elect the new...
• Ecuador recognises Sphere standards as cornerstone of national humanitarian response policy
  05 September 2018 | Sphere
  The Ecuadorian government reaffirmed the Sphere standards’ role as the foundation of the country’s risk management structures as it unveiled its recently updated National Disaster Response Plan (RESPONDE Ec). In April 2016, a 7.8-magnitude...