Protecting Rights through Humanitarian Action
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Growing the Sheltering Tree
Training and Toolkits
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The SPHERE Project's aim 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. SPHERE has developed a Humanitarian Charter and a set of universal minimum standards in core areas of humanitarian assistance: water supply and sanitation, nutrition, food aid, shelter and site planning and health services.

See especially Module 2: The Humanitarian Charter in Detail

Executive Summary

Background Notes

Session Plans:

• Session 1 -Rights, law, and society: basic concepts
• Session 2- The basis in law for humanitarian principles
• Session 3 - Law for non-lawyers
• Session 4 - Humanitarian Principles
• Session 5 - Individual Ethics, values and coping strategies
• Session 6 - Organizational options
• Session 7 - The way forward

Handouts and Activities includedOptional Toolkit (Annexes of optional additional sessions and exercises)

Length: 118 pages plus overheads

For information about the human rights aspects of SPHERE. www.sphereproject.org/training/mod2/cont.htm

See also Appendix 1: The Sphere Project Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response and its Relevance to the Protection of Human Rights by Diane Paul. This paper discusses the Humanitarian Charter and identifies recommendations related to human rights/protection from the SPHERE manual. www.sphereproject.org/training/mod1/anx1.htm

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