An aid worker (or humanitarian worker) is a person working for a local or international organization providing material and technical assistance in a humanitarian relief context.
Wasting means being dangerously underweight as a consequence of loss of fat and muscle mass. Wasting is usually caused by low nutrient intake and loss of nutrients due to illness.
WASH is an acronym (used as noun by aid workers) and stands for water supply, sanitation and hygiene. WASH programs promote good personal and environmental hygiene in order to protect health.
Family tracing and reunification are services provided by humanitarian organizations with the scope of helping victims of family separations during large scale population movements and disasters. The most common systems, usually combined, are: on the spot tracing, use of community mechanisms and ...
Stunting children are too short for their age. Stunting is a consequence (or adaptation strategy) to chronic children malnutrition and/or repeated acute infections.
In humanitarian aid, core standards are a set of qualitative standards common to all the sectors of intervention. The six core standards defined by the Sphere Project are: people-centred humanitarian response, coordination and collaboration, assessment, design and response, performance, ...
The Sphere Handbook is one of the most widely known and internationally recognized sets of common principles and universal minimum standards for the delivery of quality humanitarian response. Because it is not owned by any one organization, the Sphere Handbook enjoys broad acceptance by the ...
The Sphere Handbook is one of the most widely known and internationally recognized sets of common principles and universal minimum standards for the delivery of quality humanitarian response. Because it is not owned by any one organization, the Sphere Handbook enjoys broad acceptance by the ...
