Sphere Handbooks
Sphere Handbook is a complete knowledge resource for the Sphere Humanitarian
Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response that aims at improving the
effectiveness and accountability of disaster response. It also sets out what
people affected by disasters have a right to expect from humanitarian
assistance.
The sphere handbook provides minimum standards, indicators and guidelines for
humanitarian agents and hence adding to the key objective of the sphere process
that is to improve the quality of assistance provided to people affected by
disasters, and to enhance the accountability of the humanitarian system in
disaster response.
This new edition of the handbook (2004) has been thoroughly revised and updated,
taking into account recent developments in humanitarian practice in wat/san,
food, shelter and health, together with feedback from practitioners in the
field, research institutes and cross-cutting experts in protection, gender,
children, older people, disabled people, HIV/AIDS and the environment. The
revised handbook is the product of an extensive collaborative effort that
reflects the collective will and shared experience of the humanitarian
community, and its determination to improve on current knowledge in humanitarian
assistance programmes.
To download chapters from Sphere Handbook, click the following links: