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The revised edition
of the Sphere Handbook which was launched
simultaneously in Geneva and Washington
D.C. on October 30th 2003.
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Your contribution to improving coherence between the HAP Standard and the Sphere Project’s Handbook
Sphere and HAP are working together to promote greater coherence between the HAP Standard in Humanitarian Accountability and Quality Management and the Sphere Project’s Handbook. To help identify current inconsistencies and promote greater practical coherence between the two standards, the HAP Secretariat and the Sphere Project need your support.
How you can contribute
Complete a short online survey before 30 November 2009. This is available in English, French and Spanish.
Host or participate in a joint HAP-Sphere consultation. See brief Guidance on the Joint consultations.
HAP and Sphere will continue to work collaboratively with other quality and accountability initiatives throughout the revision processes.
If you would like more information on the revision processes or have any difficulties in accessing the links above please contact Monica Blagescu mblagescu@hapinternational.org (HAP Policy Services Coordinator), Avishan Chanani avishan.chanani@ifrc.org (Sphere Handbook Revision Coordinator), or visit the following websites:
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Sphere reading materials on FMO
The Sphere Project’s Humanitarian Charter
and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response sets
out clearly what people affected by disasters
have a right to expect from humanitarian assistance.
It is a remarkable international initiative aimed
at improving the effectiveness and accountability
of disaster response. The aim of the Sphere
Project 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. The revised edition
of the Sphere handbook was published in 2004.
In collaboration with the Sphere Project, FMO
have made most of the references and reading materials
in the handbook's bibliographies accessible online
(in full text). The bibliographies are structured
in the same way as they are in the handbook and
are divided into the following categories:
Some of these documents have been made available
in Portable Document Format ( )
on this website; for others we provide a direct
hyperlink ( )
to where the document is available elsewhere online.
For the remainder we have as yet been unable to
obtain permission from the copyright holder to
make them available online, or not obtained a
copy for digitization, and so have simply provided
a traditional bibliographic reference. The online
content will continue to expand.
There are two options for downloading the complete
Sphere Handbook text:
To view the PDF documents you will need to install
Adobe Acrobat Reader. (Mac OS X users: You can
open PDFs using the 'Preview' application which
is preinstalled.) Acrobat Reader is available
as a free download from the Adobe
website.
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