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Reconstruction and Rehabilitation,14 such as the Humanitarian Charter and Minimum
Standards in Disaster Response, the Guidelines on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support
in Emergency Settings, the Gender Handbook in Humanitarian Action, the Operational
Guidelines on Human Rights and Natural Disasters and the Guidelines for Gender-based
Violence Interventions in Humanitarian Settings;
(b)
The Sphere Project, a voluntary initiative that brings a wide range of
humanitarian agencies together around a common aim, that of improving the quality of
humanitarian assistance and the accountability of humanitarian actors to their constituents,
donors and affected populations. Established in 1997, the Sphere Project is not a
membership organization. Governed by a Board composed of representatives of global
networks of humanitarian agencies, the Sphere Project is a vibrant community of
humanitarian response practitioners;15
(c)
The standards, training, code of conduct and certification of the Humanitarian
Accountability Partnership, established in 2003;16
(d)
The Hyogo Framework for Action 2005–2015: Building the Resilience of
Nations and Communities to Disasters;17
(e)
The Global Humanitarian Platform, a mechanism established in 2006 to
increase coordination between the United Nations and non-United Nations humanitarian
organizations;
(f)
The 2007 Guidelines for the Domestic Facilitation and Regulation of
International Disaster Relief and Initial Recovery Assistance (IDRL Guidelines) and the
Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs
in Disaster Relief (30 November 2007);
(g)
The 2009 manual entitled International Law and Standards Applicable in
Natural Disaster Situations of the International Development Law Organization;
(h)
The Minimum Inter-Agency Standards for Protection Mainstreaming,
published by World Vision in 2012;18
(i)
The Food Assistance Convention, which entered into force on 1 January
2013;
(j)
The Warsaw international mechanism for loss and damage associated with
climate change impacts, adopted by the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change at its nineteenth session, in November 2013.
The mechanism was established under the Cancun Adaptation Framework to address loss
and damage associated with impacts of climate change, including extreme events and slow
onset events, in developing countries that are particularly vulnerable to the adverse effects
of climate change.19
29.
With regard to international humanitarian law, the International Committee of the
Red Cross, established in 1863, and the founding member of the International Federation of
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Established in June 1992 in response to General Assembly resolution 46/182 on the strengthening of
humanitarian assistance.
See www.sphereproject.org/.
See www.hapinternational.org/.
Available from www.unisdr.org/files/1037_hyogoframeworkforactionenglish.pdf.
Available from www.humanitarianresponse.info/topics/procap/document/world-vision-minimuminter-agency-standards-protection-mainstreaming-march.
Available from http://unfccc.int/files/meetings/warsaw_nov_2013/insession/application/pdf/fccc.cp.2013.l.15.pdf.
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