Use sources as starting points
A named standard does not answer a current local question by itself. Record the edition, date, scope, assumptions, and competent reviewers needed.
Reference shelf
Read beyond the fieldbook
The app provides general editorial learning, not professional certification or current operational guidance. These independent public sources offer fuller standards, principles, and accountability resources. Verify current editions and local applicability before relying on any source.
Keep claims proportionate
An activity count, delivery receipt, photograph, testimony, or checklist completion supports only bounded conclusions. Distinguish observation, output, experience, pattern, outcome, and attribution.
Preserve local knowledge
Relevant expertise includes lived, cultural, operational, accessibility, safeguarding, technical, legal, market, language, and security knowledge. A distant source cannot replace it.
Independent reading
Six source families
External links appear only on this separate website. The offline Android app displays citation addresses as inactive text.
- ICRC Fundamental Principles
Humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality.
Visit the ICRC source - ICRC Code of Conduct
Principles of conduct for humanitarian response.
Visit the ICRC publication - Sphere Handbook
Humanitarian Charter, Protection Principles, Core Humanitarian Standard, and technical standards.
Visit the Sphere Handbook - Core Humanitarian Standard
Quality and accountability commitments for people and communities affected by crisis.
Visit the CHS source - OCHA humanitarian principles
General reference material on humanitarian principles.
Visit the OCHA source - IASC accountability and inclusion resources
Accountability, inclusion, participation, and community-engagement resources.
Visit the IASC source
A five-part reading practice
Turn a source into a bounded question
This simple practice mirrors the app's emphasis on modest conclusions and reviewable next steps.
Source
Name the authoring body, edition, date, intended audience, and scope.
Context
Identify what differs in place, time, people, services, markets, access, or risk.
Voice
Ask whose knowledge informed the source and whose current perspective is missing.
Boundary
State what the source supports and what it cannot establish in this situation.
Next check
Assign a bounded question to a responsible role and set a review point or stop condition.
No endorsement implied: External sources are listed for independent reading. Their inclusion does not imply sponsorship, partnership, approval, or responsibility for this app or its publisher.