Stories from the field
"Three days on Sphere, and I came back and rewrote how our team runs assessments."
A field coordinator from a local NGO — on what changed after training with CHI.
Read the story →A community of humanitarian practitioners
Join a community that will redefine humanitarian work for you.
Being here takes you to the next level alongside practitioners solving the same problems, backed by capacity building, training, research, and working groups.
24 Aug 2026 · 12:30 – 13:30CHI at DIHAD 2026
Rethinking Global Humanitarian Capacity for Local Impact
Talha Keskin · CHI Director
Dubai World Trade Centre
Meet us there →Our standard
Built on the frameworks the sector already trusts.
You can feel confident in our approach. Every CHI curriculum is deeply rooted in recognized humanitarian standards and guided by professionals who have lived them in the field.
- Sphere StandardsMinimum standards in humanitarian response, applied to real caseloads.
- Core Humanitarian StandardAccountability to the people a response is meant to serve.
- Protection & MHPSSSpecialist tracks led by staff who have run them in the field.
What we do
01 — CAPACITY BUILDINGCrisis map
Every crisis. One map.
Humanitarian situations we follow, with needs figures from the UN agencies that publish them.
6 active crises trackedlower higher severity
Sudan30.4M people in need
→Syria16.5M people in need
→Afghanistan22.9M people in need
→NEEDS FIGURES FROM UN HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE PLANS · UPDATED MANUALLY
Opportunities
Our trainings
Humanitarian Standards✓ CompletedSPH-001
Sphere Standards Training Program (5–9 January 2026)
Ran 5–9 January 2026
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Humanitarian Standards✓ CompletedSPH-002
Sphere Standards Training Program (9–13 February 2026)
Ran 9–13 February 2026
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Humanitarian Standards✓ CompletedSPH-GAZA-1
Gaza Sphere Standards Training (12-14 April)
Ran 12–14 April 2026
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Humanitarian Standards✓ CompletedSPH-003-P1
Sphere Standards Training Program - Phase 1 (14–16 April 2026)
Ran 14–16 April 2026
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Updates
Out in the world
The rooms
Real moments. Genuine connections.True impact.
EVERY PHOTO ON THIS SITE IS FROM OUR OWN SESSIONS
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Tell us what to run next.
We plan cohorts from what practitioners actually ask for so the fastest way onto the calendar is to tell us what you need.
Tell us what training you need
Two minutes. It goes straight to the team planning the next cohort.
Suggest a training →Train your team
Bring a CHI programme to your organisation, for your own staff.
Talk to us →See what we've delivered
Reports, photographs and materials from every programme we've run.
Past programmes →Follow the crises we work in
Situations we track, with accounts from the people responding.
Crisis map →