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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...
Standards
Global Hand Standards introductory page You can also view this page in German. Diese Seite ist auch auf Deutsch verfügbar.
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.
2.1 Freight: Supply Chain Management
Global Hand recommends The Sphere Project's Minimum Standards (Sphere), where applicable to logistics and transportation.
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.
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.
Global Hand Principles (Summary)
The Global Hand Principles aim to ensure that aid given is good aid. The principles state that aid should be: need driven, quality controlled, determined by informed choices, avoiding aid dependency, exercising economic responsibility; factoring both relief and development constraints; implementing...
Customs & Excise
Sometimes aid is sent without due care being given to customs and excise. This can result in border delays, demurrage fees and break of trust. Quality aid presupposes quality preparation.
Cross-referential Issues
The standards we are developing are both specific and cross-referential, the latter relating, in part or full, to the various sections listed under the Product, Services and Management headings.
Cultural
When goods sent are culturally inappropriate, it is possible to deepen the pain of those already struggling against hardship. Sensitivity is critical.
Climatic
Climate affects aid choices at levels that are both more and less obvious. Equipment, foodstuffs and textiles are among issues where vulnerability may be an concern.
Combating Corruption
Corruption can prove problematic at every point in the aid distribution process, from arrival at port to local distribution.
Cargo / Transportation
Cargo handling can be an issue in aid quality. If goods are packed inappropriately for the recipients’ needs, the consignment can prove labour intensive for the distributors whose normal programmes may be affected accordingly.
2.3 Freight: Resource Management
Global Hand recommends The Sphere Project's Minimum Standards where applicable to management of resources.
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...
Economic
One of the greatest areas of concern re aid shipments is the impact on the local economy. It is possible for well meaning donors to flood a local market, adversely affecting manufacture and employment.