Country-level use of Sphere

In Honduras, the Sphere working group launched the Spanish edition of the 2004 Sphere handbook. More than 50 people attended the event, including donors, NGOs and government officials. The group also held both a national and a regional consultation on the future of Sphere. In El Salvador, the Sphere working group was invited by the government agency in charge of disaster response to present Sphere in the legislative commissions of the National Assembly. In April the group held a consultation meeting on the future of Sphere. The French and Spanish editions of the 2004 Sphere handbook, Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response, are now available in French from Oxfam in the U.K (publish@oxfam.org.uk) or in Spanish by contacting Intermón in Spain (editorial@IntermonOxfam.org) Both the French and Spanish versions of the handbook are downloadable from the Sphere website at www.sphereproject.org.

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