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The Humanitarian Cluster System is a system, used by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, to coordinate multi-agency responses to large humanitarian emergencies. [1] [2] The system has been used since 2005 to improve the quality of humanitarian aid delivery. [3]
The Shelter Cluster is one of eleven sectorial coordination groups [1] [2] that are part of the Cluster Approach, that followed the Humanitarian Response Review in 2005. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Currently 43 humanitarian organizations are part of the Shelter Cluster at global level, [ 5 ] more than 500 organizations coordinate shelter assistance with the ...
The Sphere Handbook was developed by international humanitarian aid agencies to describe minimum standards for the provision of emergency humanitarian aid. [1] The handbook is published by the Sphere Association (also known as the Sphere Project). [1] Médecins Sans Frontières declined to engage in the project to create the standards. [3]
Sphere [2] (formerly known as the Sphere Project) is a global movement started in 1997 aiming to improve the quality of humanitarian assistance.The Sphere standards are the most commonly used and most widely known set of core humanitarian standards. [3]
Established in early 2017, the SAG is composed of eight members, all of whom are senior humanitarian logisticians. Five of them are elected by Logistics Cluster partners, one seat is reserved for the World Food Programme—as lead agency of the Logistics Cluster—and one seat is held by the Logistics Cluster Coordinator of a field operation.
The UN activated the Cluster System, in which groups of humanitarian organizations (UN and non-UN) work to restore health, shelter, nutrition and economic activity. [ 3 ] The World Health Organization , which leads the Health Cluster, the largest one, has developed guidance on donations of medicine and healthcare equipment, so that the ...
The Sphere Project was created after that event in order to create a more coherent system of humanitarian aid organizations that could be mobilized when needed. [3] Before aid is sent, the HC and HCT perform an initial assessment in order to determine which clusters of aid organizations should be recommended for activation within the country. [ 1 ]
If humanitarian innovation is carried out incorrectly, there can be consequences to communities, individuals, or the system at large. Monetary and political risk if humanitarian efforts fail: This risk can cause delayed responses to humanitarian issues, so organizations tend to look to the past rather than plan for the future. [21]