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Cargo / Transportation
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Cargo handling can be an issue in aid quality. If goods are packed inappropriately for the recipients’ needs, the consignment can prove labour intensive for the distributors whose normal programmes may be affected accordingly.
2. Services
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Good cargo, if handled badly, can result in poor, even grievous, outcomes. Related services are therefore included in the development of these standards.
Standards
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Global Hand Standards introductory page You can also view this page in German. Diese Seite ist auch auf Deutsch verfĂĽgbar.
2.1 Freight: Supply Chain Management
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Global Hand recommends The Sphere Project's Minimum Standards (Sphere), where applicable to logistics and transportation.
2.2 Freight: Distribution
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Global Hand recommends The Sphere Project's Minimum Standards where applicable to distribution of goods.
2.3 Freight: Resource Management
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Global Hand recommends The Sphere Project's Minimum Standards where applicable to management of resources.
2.4 Freight: Warehousing
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Our research has not uncovered enough material for us to prepare draft standards on this topic.
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...