Sphere Project

Sphere Project is an initiative at global level to promote the Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response. It 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. Sphere Project has played a key role in facilitating inter agency coordination and unified action at global level.

The Sphere Project was launched in 1997 by a group of Humanitarian NGOs and the Red Cross and Red Crescent movement. Sphere is based on two core beliefs: first, that all possible should be taken to alleviate human suffering arising out of calamity and conflict, and second, that those affected by disaster have a right to life with dignity and therefore a right to assistance.

Sphere is three things: a handbook, a broadprocess of collaboration and an expression of commitment to quality and accountability.

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