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Sphere is a global community that sets standards for humanitarian action and promotes quality and accountability.

The Sphere movement was started in 1997 by a group of humanitarian professionals aiming to improve the quality of humanitarian work during disaster response. With this goal in mind, they framed a Humanitarian Charter and identified a set of humanitarian standards to be applied in humanitarian response. Initially developed by non-governmental organisations, along with the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, the Sphere standards have become a primary reference tool for national and international NGOs, volunteers, UN agencies, governments, donors, the private sector, and many others. Today, Sphere is a worldwide community which brings together and empowers practitioners to improve the quality and accountability of humanitarian assistance. Sphere’s flagship publication, the Sphere Handbook, is one of the most widely known and internationally recognized sets of common principles and universal minimum standards in humanitarian response.

13/10/2026

Coming to AidEx - the global humanitarian aid event 2026? We’d love to see you there!

will be there for two sessions exploring questions around who shapes humanitarian standards and how we make ethical decisions when a crisis hits. Both are opportunities to exchange ideas, hear different perspectives and get involved in the conversation.

Join our speakers Avianto Amri, Aya Yagan, Osas Aizeyosabor Agho and Bernadette Sexton for these discussions.

📍 Find us in Workshop Room 2 on 21 and 22 October. Swipe through for the session details.

Catch up with the at ! William Anderson, Raquel Weintraub, Felicity Fallon, Tristan R Hale, Sarah Ward and Andrea Espinosa would be happy to connect, hear what’s happening in your context, exchange ideas, and talk about the ongoing Sphere Handbook Revision and the wider humanitarian sector.

If you’re attending, come say hello. We hope to see you there!

09/10/2026

🎉 **It’s here! Our website has had a makeover!**

We’re excited to share the refreshed look of spherestandards.org with you!

We’ve given our website a fresh look, and now it’s time for you to explore. Whether you’re looking for the Sphere Handbook, practical resources, training opportunities, the latest news or updates on the Handbook Revision, there’s plenty to explore.

Take a look around, revisit your go-to resources and see what’s new.

🔗 Explore the website: https://spherestandards.org/

We’d love to hear what you think!

23/09/2026

Understanding our environmental impact is an important part of working towards greater accountability.

In 2025, travel linked to Sphere’s work generated 33.8 tonnes of CO₂ – including staff commuting, business travel and participation in HNPW.

This is the second year we have tracked our travel-related emissions, building on the baseline established in 2024.

Why track it? Because understanding our footprint is the first step towards making more informed choices about how we work and travel.

📖 Find this and more in the Sphere Annual Report 2025.

[Link in the comments]

22/09/2026

What if we could act before a climate shock becomes a livelihood crisis?

El Niño can be forecast months in advance, creating an opportunity to prepare before droughts, floods, heatwaves and storms affect communities.

Early action can take many forms.

Around 35% of humanitarian shocks can be predicted in advance, yet less than 1% of global humanitarian funding currently goes to anticipatory action.

For communities dependent on crops and livestock, preparedness is also about protecting the assets, food and income they rely on.

LEGS and SEADS provide practical standards, principles and tools to support livestock- and crop-related livelihoods in emergencies, including preparedness and early action for drought and other climate-related shocks.

As El Niño 2026 approaches, the question is not only how we respond when a crisis hits, but what we can do with the information we have before it does.

Explore the LEGS and SEADS resources for El Niño 2026: [link in the comments]

Tufts University

18/09/2026

🌍 تعرّفوا على سفير: الكرامة أولاً، دائماً!

هل تتعرّفون على سفير للمرة الأولى، أم ترغبون في تعزيز فهمكم للمعايير التي تدعم الجودة والمساءلة في العمل الإنساني؟
تقترب الجلسة الثالثة من سلسلة الورش متعددة اللغات لعام 2026 «تعرّفوا على سفير: الكرامة أولاً، دائماً!».
تتعاون سفير مع Fraternity – International Humanitarian Missions (FIHM)، نقطة الاتصال في البرازيل والبرتغال، لتقديم هذه السلسلة إلى المجتمع الإنساني الناطق باللغة العربية.
تعرّفوا على سفير – الجلسة العربية

مساحة تفاعلية للتعرّف على سفير ومعاييره، وتبادل الخبرات، وطرح الأسئلة حول كيفية تطبيقها في العمل الإنساني.

📅 30 سبتمبر 2026
🕒 15:00 بتوقيت وسط أوروبا (CET)
🌐 اللغة: العربية
💻 عبر الإنترنت | المشاركة مجانية

🔗 سجّلوا الآن: امسحوا رمز QR لحجز مكانكم، أو تجدون رابط التسجيل في التعليقات.

انضموا إلينا لاستكشاف المعايير التي تسهم في تعزيز الجودة والمساءلة والكرامة في العمل الإنساني.

12/09/2026

How are organisations adapting to funding cuts and what are the implications?

One year on from the funding cuts of 2025, organisations across the humanitarian, development and civil society sectors have made significant changes to how they work from restructuring and reducing costs to changing staffing and delivery models, increasing collaboration and adopting new technologies.

Community World Service Asia (CWSA), in collaboration with ACT Church of Sweden, is developing a practice paper to capture what these adaptations look like in practice.

The survey explores:
• What efficiencies have been created
• Where additional costs, workload or risks have emerged
• How adaptations are affecting quality and accountability
• What they mean for partnerships and engagement with communities

Have you experienced these changes in your organisation? Share your experience.

🕑 10–15 minutes | Anonymous survey
📅 Deadline: 20 September 2026
👉 Fill out the survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfiFuUlJB3ysIGHptCZZHPEDcjp2Ah4Fsp5xaKzliwEgIUhoQ/viewform

10/09/2026

Do you work directly in sanitation?

Humanitarian sanitation is about more than engineering. We want to hear from the full range of involved from hygiene and public health promotion to community engagement, programming, sanitation engineering and other operational roles.

This survey is being conducted to gather your opinions about the Excreta Management sub-chapter in the current Sphere Standards and the Quality Standards in Emergencies.

📝 Complete the short survey and share your experience: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfAX-8URtwp2DRN9_-ayR_9pFT9WLBvMHLJtPOZ3srhoOdy5w/viewform

We particularly encourage women and practitioners from public health and hygiene promotion backgrounds to respond.

Help ensure future Sphere Standards reflect the realities of humanitarian sanitation in practice.

08/09/2026

“Include the voice of local partners. Local actors. Local NGOs. Local front-liners and communities.”

That message came through clearly when we asked the Sphere network what they want to see in the next Handbook. The call was not simply for an updated set of standards.

It was for a Handbook that is: practical guidance for real contexts, stronger representation of local actors and communities, space for emerging realities from climate change to AI and language that makes the standards easier to understand and use.

These voices are helping shape the direction of the Sphere Handbook Revision — because standards are stronger when they reflect the realities of the people who use them.

🎥 Hear what the Sphere network told us they want from the next edition.
Want to be part of shaping what comes next?

Learn more about the Sphere Handbook Revision and find out how you can get involved on our dedicated Revision webpage.

[Link in the comments]

04/09/2026

Humanitarian action depends on good information but how often do we actually measure whether the information ecosystem is working?

The Humanitarian Information Landscape Assessment (HILA) is changing that.

Developed by iMMAP Inc.AP, CartONG, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and KoboToolbox, with the support and endorsement of ICVA, InterAction, H2H Networketwork and Sphere, HILA provides the first global, standardised and continuously updated assessment of humanitarian information ecosystems.

The survey takes less than 20 minutes and is open to anyone working in or supporting a humanitarian response.

Your experience can help build a stronger evidence base for humanitarian action.

👉 Take the survey: https://ee-eu.kobotoolbox.org/x/OUSUPDMY
🔎 Learn more: https://hila-survey.org/

03/09/2026

🌍 Get to Know Sphere: Dignity first, always!

Following our Spanish session in July, the Get to Know hashtag : Dignity first, always! multilingual workshop series continues with a session for the French-speaking humanitarian community.

Join us for an interactive introduction to Sphere and its standards, with an opportunity to explore how they can support quality and accountability in humanitarian action, exchange experiences and ask questions.

📅 16 September 2026
🕒 15:00 CET
🌐 Language: French
💻 Online | Free to attend

🔗 Register now: Scan the QR code to reserve your place or visit the link in the comments.

Come along, learn more about Sphere and discover practical ways the standards can support humanitarian work that puts hashtag , hashtag and hashtag at the centre.

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