Published by CHS Alliance
The Sphere Project
Groupe URD
First edition 2015
ISBN: 978-2-9701015-2-9
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69 CHS Guidance Notes and Indicators
Staff: any designated representative of an organisation, including national, international, and permanent or short-term employees, as well as volunteers and consultants.
Staff competencies: the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours that individuals develop in the course of their working life. Staff capacity considers how these individual competencies work together to achieve organisational objectives.
Stakeholder: anybody who can affect or is affected by an organisation, strategy or project.
Surge capacity: relates to the ability of an agency to scale-up quickly and to respond to large-scale crises.
Transparency: refers to openness, honesty and communication. An activity, project or organisation is transparent if information about it is open and freely available to the public.
Vulnerability: the extent to which some people may be disproportionately affected by the disruption of their physical environment and social support mechanisms following disaster or conlict, resulting in an increased risk of exploitation, illness or death. Vulnerability is speciic to each person and each situation.
