2011 SPHERE PROJECT EDITION

2011 Sphere Project Edition

2011 Sphere Project Edition

Introduction

The main purpose of this paper is to understand the efficacy and usefulness of the Sphere Project and the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, including the 2011 Sphere Project Edition. "The Sphere standards have become the standards for excellence in humanitarian assistance," said Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs United Nations, Valerie Amos, during the presentation of the 2011 edition of the Sphere Handbook in the city of New York. On April 14, the English version of the Sphere Handbook published in dozen countries. From the United States to India and Pakistan to South Africa, Australia, Kenya and Switzerland, the Sphere Handbook Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Humanitarian Response got the submission in about 30 events around the world (ADRA, 2002a, p. 56).

Discussion

"Sphere is a standard for Caritas and the humanitarian community, and represents a radical improvement in the level of humanitarian response in the last 10 to 15 years," Nuno said Mayer". From now on, the challenge will be to use the expertise that had spread so widely in the industry and got incorporation in this Manual, and strict respect for humanitarian principles that underpin and guide this approach”. The launch of the German, Arabic, Spanish, French and Russian Manual take place on 23 June or the following week (Harrell, 1992, p. 225).

The Sphere Project and its manual are popular for introducing considerations of quality and accountability in humanitarian interventions, but what are the origins of the Sphere Project? What are the philosophy and approach he advocates? How and why this book was it designed? What is its place in the global landscape for humanitarian action? Who should use it and when? These are the questions that arise in the minds of ordinary people.

The Sphere Project was launched in 1997 by a group of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and humanitarian by the International Red Cross and Red Crescent. Their goal was to improve the quality of their actions when responding to disasters and to be required to report. They founded the philosophy of the Sphere on two core beliefs: the One is that those affected by disaster or armed conflict have the right to live in dignity and, therefore, to receive the assistance they need, and the second is that everything possible must be done to alleviating human suffering caused by disaster or armed conflict (Freih, 2000, p. 22). In support of these two core beliefs, the artisans of the Sphere Project has developed a Humanitarian Charter and identified a set of minimum standards in key areas to save lives, which have categorization in the four technical chapters of this manual: water supply, sanitation and hygiene promotion, food security and nutrition, shelter, habitat and non-food items, and health agenda. The standards are fundamental processes and apply to all technical chapters (Davis, 2003, p. 16).

Moreover, it is obvious that the Sphere is only a humanitarian charter and minimum standards resumes of humanitarian intervention is the result of a ...