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Global Hand Principles

Global Hand, and its parent NGO, Crossroads Foundation, aims to ensure that aid given is good aid. You can find a range of standards, specific to sectors of the disaster and development spectrum, in our Standards, Guidelines and Toolkits section. A high level summary of Global Hand's standards...

Source Material

The Global Hand standards were extracted from among the following documents. We also list here some other humanitarian principles and standards documents which guided and informed the first draft of the Global Hand standards.

Disaster Relief

A considerable body of research exists on disaster and relief recommendations. We are drawing upon these to extract those components that are in-kind specific.

Combating Corruption

Corruption can prove problematic at every point in the aid distribution process, from arrival at port to local distribution.

3.5 Human Resources

Global Hand recommends the People in Aid Code, on human resources.

3.6 Programme

Global Hand recommends InterAction's PVO Standards, summarised here, where applicable to these issues.