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3.2 Legal Issues
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Global Hand recommends InterAction's PVO Standards (InterAction), where applicable to legal issues.
3.3. Communications to the Public
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Global Hand recommends InterAction's PVO Standards (InterAction), where applicable to this issue.
3.4 Organisational Integrity / Transparency
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Global Hand recommends InterAction's PVO Standards (InterAction), where applicable to this issue.
3.6 Programme
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Global Hand recommends InterAction's PVO Standards, summarised here, where applicable to these issues.
Source Material
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The Global Hand standards were extracted from among the following documents. We also list here some other humanitarian principles and standards documents which guided and informed the first draft of the Global Hand standards.
Disaster Relief
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A considerable body of research exists on disaster and relief recommendations. We are drawing upon these to extract those components that are in-kind specific.
Economic
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One of the greatest areas of concern re aid shipments is the impact on the local economy. It is possible for well meaning donors to flood a local market, adversely affecting manufacture and employment.
Global Hand Principles
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Global Hand, and its parent NGO, Crossroads Foundation, aims to ensure that aid given is good aid. You can find a range of standards, specific to sectors of the disaster and development spectrum, in our Standards, Guidelines and Toolkits section. A high level summary of Global Hand's standards...
Global Hand Principles (Summary)
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The Global Hand Principles aim to ensure that aid given is good aid. The principles state that aid should be: need driven, quality controlled, determined by informed choices, avoiding aid dependency, exercising economic responsibility; factoring both relief and development constraints; implementing...
Reference material
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As part of our ongoing research into the area of standards, Global Hand has put together a listing of standards, codes and guidelines relevant to public-private partnerships. This listing can be accessed via * the further information link below (PDF format) * a "searchable online...