Welcome to the How to use the Sphere Handbook Course
The aim of the course is to present the Sphere Handbook as a practical tool for providing accountable assistance to help people in conflict and disasters to survive, recover and rebuild their lives with dignity.
Is this course for me?
The course builds on the knowledge and skills of people who are working or volunteering in humanitarian contexts. No prior knowledge or experience is required. This course will help you to learn about Sphere and how you can use it in your work to provide humanitarian support more effectively.
There are six sections in this module:
- The Sphere Approach and the Sphere Handbook
- Sphere minimum humanitarian standards in four life-saving areas
- Using the Sphere Handbook in humanitarian contexts
- Reflection on your own work
- Quiz
- Summary and Close
How will I benefit from this course? By the end of this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the Sphere Approach to humanitarian work,
- Summarise the contents of the Sphere Handbook and describe who it is for,
- Apply minimum standards, indicators and guidance notes in four life-saving areas to challenges encountered in humanitarian contexts,
- Reflect on ways that using the Sphere Handbook in your work can help affected people to regain dignity, resilience, well-being and influence over their lives,
- List sources of additional information to help you use the Sphere Handbook.
How long will it take? This course should take you around 90 minutes to complete.
How much does it cost? This course is free!.
Will I get a certificate or digital badge at the end? You will be able to download a certificate once you have have completed all of the activities within the course. 
How do I start? Click on the I agree - Join course button. This will take you through to the course content. You don't need to complete the course in one go - you can always continue later from where you left off.
The course builds on the knowledge and skills of people who are working or volunteering in humanitarian contexts. No prior knowledge or experience is required. This course will help you to learn about Sphere and how you can use it in your work to provide humanitarian support more effectively.
There are six sections in this module:
- The Sphere Approach and the Sphere Handbook
- Sphere minimum humanitarian standards in four life-saving areas
- Using the Sphere Handbook in humanitarian contexts
- Reflection on your own work
- Quiz
- Summary and Close
- Describe the Sphere Approach to humanitarian work,
- Summarise the contents of the Sphere Handbook and describe who it is for,
- Apply minimum standards, indicators and guidance notes in four life-saving areas to challenges encountered in humanitarian contexts,
- Reflect on ways that using the Sphere Handbook in your work can help affected people to regain dignity, resilience, well-being and influence over their lives,
- List sources of additional information to help you use the Sphere Handbook.
Data protection and consent
This course was created and is administered by The Humanitarian Leadership Academy. By joining this course you are consenting to this organization being given access to your Kaya profile information, including your name and email address, so that they can provide the course. This may require them to contact you. Your data will be anonymized before it is used for any analysis or reporting purposes. If you have any questions about this, please email digitallearning@savethechildren.org.uk