Essays about: "Sphere minimum standards"

Found 4 essays containing the words Sphere minimum standards.

  1. 1. Risk Assessments of Natural Hazards in Refugee Camp Planning in Greece. Challenges and Recommended Actions.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Valérie Tschirpig; [2022]
    Keywords : risk assessment; risk management; disaster risk management; natural hazards; refugee camp; Reception and Identification Center; Greece; Moria; Mavrovouni; Lesvos; humanitarian standards; Sphere Standards; Camp Management Toolkit; Camp Coordination and Camp Management Cluster; exposure; vulnerability; capacity development; Standard Operating Procedures; Science General;

    Abstract : The rapid increase of asylum-seekers in 2015 overwhelmed the Greek reception system and led to the creation of numerous refugee camps throughout the country. The Sphere Minimum Standards provide globally acknowledged guidance to design and manage these facilities. READ MORE

  3. 2. Sanitation in Moria : The Sphere minimum standards and sustainability in a protracted crisis

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Karoliina Korhonen; [2020]
    Keywords : refugees; Moria; sustainability; Sphere minimum standards; protracted crisis; crisis; sanitation; WASH; refugee camp; Greece; asylum seekers; environment; health; humanitarian action; development; Lesbos;

    Abstract : With over 19,200 asylum seekers living on its premises, the Moria refugee camp is operating way over its capacity of 3000 residents. Due to the uncontrolled, rapid growth of the camp, the existing sanitation infrastructure has fallen into disrepair under excessive usage. READ MORE

  4. 3. Haiyan: Architecture and natural disasters : Turning a tragedy into a new opportunity by rethinking the urban landscape and humanitarian response

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Manuel Nyberg Inostroza; [2014]
    Keywords : Tacloban; Philippines; Haiyan; natural disasters; urban landscape; humanitarian response;

    Abstract : My starting point was to gain an understanding of how humanitarian aid was organized in Tacloban City after the disaster of typhoon Haiyan. Two specific sectors has been studied; Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) and Emergency Shelter. READ MORE

  5. 4. Legal Protection of the Individual in Crisis Situations within the Territory of a State: Theoretical Background and Instrumentarium for Improvement of the Framework

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen

    Author : Kathrin Werner; [2005]
    Keywords : International Human Rights Law; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : In the traditional model of international law, to which however reality has never exactly corresponded, situations of armed violence fall into clearly defined categories which in their turn appertained to a certain set of rules of international law applicable. For armed conflicts between sovereign states ('war'), international humanitarian law provides a full body of rules. READ MORE