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- Download the Sphere Handbook as a PDF in over 40 languages.
- Browse over 100 videos on Sphere’s YouTube channel.
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Nature-based Solutions for Climate Resilience in Humanitarian ActionEnglish 6.33 MB pdf 2023This guide, developed in collaboration with the Nature-based Solutions in Humanitarian Contexts Working Group, provides practical guidance for using the Sphere minimum standards when implementing nature-based solutions (NbS) that addresses societal challenges in humanitarian action, including disaster risk reduction (DRR) and climate change adaptation.
The guide is currently available in English only. If you would like to translate or print copies of the guide, please contact the Sphere office.
The guide was designed to meet high accessibility standards and this downloadable PDF has been remediated for accessibility and tested according to ISO Standard 14289-1 (PDF/UA) using the Matterhorn Protocol.
The guide was authored by Jenn Hoffman and Dr. Sarah Henly-Shepard on behalf of Sphere, FEBA (an initiative of IUCN), PEDRR, EHAN and IFRC. -
Sphere in Context and for Assessment, Monitoring, Evaluation and LearningEnglish 2.42 MB pdf 2021This resource, available in English, French, Spanish, and Arabic, explains why it is important to use Sphere standards throughout the humanitarian programme cycle, and how to do so. The document starts with a section on how to use humanitarian standards in your context. This is followed by standalone but complementary chapters for Assessment, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning.
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Usando as Normas Esfera em Cenários Urbanos (Parte 2, 2020)Portuguese 2.17 MB pdf 2021A edição 2018 do Manual Esfera explicitamente incluiu, pela primeira vez, referências específicas a cenários urbanos. Este guia, a edição 2020 de Usando as Normas Esfera em Cenários Urbanos, amplia esse trabalho. Todos os elementos do Código de Conduta, da Carta Humanitária, dos Princípios de Proteção e da Norma Humanitária Essencial (NHE) são aplicáveis aos contextos urbanos.
This guide is available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Portuguese.
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Using the Sphere standards in urban settings (Part 2, 2020)English 2.16 MB pdf 2020
By Sphere
The 2018 edition of the Sphere Handbook includes explicit guidance for using the standards in urban settings. This guide concentrates on Sphere’s four technical chapters, and additional tools and approaches for urban response are provided, including for context analysis; assessments; profiling and targeting; area-based approaches; and cash and markets.
This guide is available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, and Portuguese.
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Using the Sphere Standards in Urban Settings (Part 1, 2016)French 545.33 KB pdf 2016
By Sphere
Applying humanitarian standards in urban situations has been a challenge for a long time. This guide provides practical guidance on how to do so and seeks to understand how best to integrate the requirements of urban contexts into the 2018 edition of the Sphere Handbook.
This guide is available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
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Sphere for Monitoring and EvaluationEnglish 690.22 KB pdf 2015
By Sphere
Sphere for Monitoring and Evaluation is for all humanitarian practitioners from the assessment to the evaluation phase; for people carrying out monitoring activities and evaluations, be they internal or external. It also addresses the learning processes that should ensue from monitoring and evaluation exercises. The guide is based on the conviction that Sphere provides useful benchmarks for the whole programme cycle, which can be especially valuable to organisations that do not have internal targets or standard operating procedures. Sphere also adds value through its emphasis on a rights-based and participatory approach. -
Sphere for AssessmentsEnglish 1.20 MB pdf 2014This document is one of a series on how to integrate key elements of Sphere’s people-centred approach into the humanitarian programme cycle. These guides indicate the relevant parts of the Sphere Handbook at different moments of the humanitarian programme cycle and should therefore be used together with the Handbook. The primary audiences for "Sphere for Assessments" are managers, assessment staff, trainers and coordinators, as well as donors. It may also be useful for a wider range of staff in any agency dealing with humanitarian response.
