Sphere Core Humanitarian Standards

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Sphere Core Humanitarian Standards

Description

The nine Sphere Core Humanitarian Standards focus on delivering quality, effective, and support during a crisis or vulnerable situation. The nine commitments focus on assessing, measuring, and improving the performance or accountability among individuals and communities. Humanitarian emergencies are war, suffering, weakened public institution, outbreaks of disease, security risks, and international assistance. For example, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has helped with funding and equipment to fight COVID-19 in vulnerable countries, raising awareness of COVID-19, and identifying solutions.

One of the three of the nine spheres of Core Humanitarian Standards is humanitarian response is appropriate and relevant (Core Humanitarian Standard, 2022). Communities are peopled are affected by the crisis and need appropriate resources and assistance to help them. The second one is humanitarian response is effective and timely (Core Humanitarian Standard, 2022). The communities and people need to have access to humanitarian assistance in the correct movement. The third one is staff are supported during their job effectively and treated fairly (Core Humanitarian Standard, 2022). I believe this one is most neglected in the cause of natural disasters or humanitarian response because they are at risk of more death than a disease of natural causes. For example, they are at high risk of violence-related death, medical evacuation, and hospitalization (Nilles et al, n.d.). Overall, the risk of the staff is not uniformly distributed across the organization.