Project
Objective: "The project objective is to develop a humanitarian charter and associated set of minimum standards in collaboration with leading NGOs, interested donor governments and UN agencies, to both disseminate the resultant products widely within the international humanitarian system and to encourage their formal adoption and practice by relief agencies and their donors."
In July 1997, the first phase of one year of the project began.
Five sectors were chosen to cover the basic sectors in humanitarian response:
- water supply and sanitation
- nutrition
- food aid
- shelter and site planning
- health services
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