Humanitarian Guidelines and Systems

This section identifies the standards and systems which facilitate effective humanitarian action.  It includes the new 2011 version of Sphere, and additional pages on Civil military liaison and the Millennium Development Goals.
 

All these pages have been revised and updated in June 2011.
 

Click on the links below to access each individual page or download as a PDF.

• International humanitarian architecture
• Core Humanitarian Competencies Framework
• The Cluster Approach
• Key UN and international organisations
• Civil military liaison
• Millennium Development Goals
• The Sphere Project
• Sphere Core Standards
• Sphere minimum standards