The Sphere tools – a summary

  1. Humanitarian Charter: provides the framework to convert the appreciation of rights into action

  2. Minimum standards: provide standards to aspire to, to enable planning

  3. Key indicators: provide signals to assess whether the standards have been met

  4. Guidance notes: provide information to help apply indicators in context

That brings us almost to the end of the first part of the introduction. Next we’ll look in more detail at the Humanitarian Charter.

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