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Global Hand Standards introductory page You can also view this page in German. Diese Seite ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar.
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...
3.6 Programme
Global Hand recommends InterAction's PVO Standards, summarised here, where applicable to these issues.
1.1 Food or beverages
Global Hand recommends The Sphere Project's Minimum Standards (these specify the minimum levels to be attained in each area), where applicable to food and beverages. This document examines the relevant Sphere Project Standards.
3.1 Financial Auditing
Global Hand and its members endorse the InterAction network's GIK-specific Standards (the AERDO GIK Standards). Global Hand is seeking, however, to apply the embedded principles in a broader, international context, as the AERDO GIK Standards were written specifically for US based non-profit GIK...
3.4 Organisational Integrity / Transparency
Global Hand recommends InterAction's PVO Standards (InterAction), where applicable to this issue.
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.
3.2 Legal Issues
Global Hand recommends InterAction's PVO Standards (InterAction), where applicable to legal issues.
3.3. Communications to the Public
Global Hand recommends InterAction's PVO Standards (InterAction), where applicable to this issue.
1.5 Household goods
Global Hand recommends The Sphere Project's Minimum Standards, where applicable to household goods. "Families have access to household utensils, soap for personal hygiene and tools for their dignity and well-being."
1.4 Clothing or footwear or accessories or fabric
Global Hand recommends The Sphere Project's Minimum Standards, where applicable to clothing. "The people affected by the disaster have sufficient blankets and clothing to provide protection from the climate and to ensure their dignity, safety and well-being."
2. Services
Good cargo, if handled badly, can result in poor, even grievous, outcomes. Related services are therefore included in the development of these standards.
2.3 Freight: Resource Management
Global Hand recommends The Sphere Project's Minimum Standards where applicable to management of resources.
1. Product
Right product, rightly placed with right outcomes is the very essence of this industry. This section has entries of two kinds. Where existing standards are of relevance to product, appropriate sections are excerpted (e.g. WHO, Sphere). Where we have found little by way of existing standards for...
2.1 Freight: Supply Chain Management
Global Hand recommends The Sphere Project's Minimum Standards (Sphere), where applicable to logistics and transportation.
2.2 Freight: Distribution
Global Hand recommends The Sphere Project's Minimum Standards where applicable to distribution of goods.
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.
Cultural
When goods sent are culturally inappropriate, it is possible to deepen the pain of those already struggling against hardship. Sensitivity is critical.
1.2 Drugs and pharmaceuticals
Global Hand recommends the WHO Guidelines for Drug Donations as summarised here. By describing "good donation practice", these guidelines aim to improve the quality of drug donations.