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OPERATIONAL SUPPORT EMERGENCY SHELTER SOLUTIONS Corinne Treherne Shelter Department, IFRC

OPERATIONAL SUPPORT EMERGENCY SHELTER SOLUTIONS Corinne Treherne Shelter Department, IFRC. Emergency shelter solutions should consider…support…promote …. Appropriate shelter solutions based on immediate needs assuring :

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OPERATIONAL SUPPORT EMERGENCY SHELTER SOLUTIONS Corinne Treherne Shelter Department, IFRC

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  1. OPERATIONAL SUPPORT EMERGENCY SHELTER SOLUTIONS Corinne Treherne Shelter Department, IFRC

  2. Emergency shelter solutions should consider…support…promote… • Appropriate shelter solutions based on immediate needs assuring : • Protection from climate - Security and personal safety - Enhanced resistance to ill health and disease - Support for family and community life - Use of communal coping strategies - Self-sufficiency and self-management - Minimising adverse impacts on local environment and economy - Maximising household livelihood support and local economic activities • Appropriate stock pre-positioning (global, Regional, national) • Rapid procurement process (global, Regional, national) • Rapid distribution process (global, Regional, national) • Take into account technical support as appropriate • Support the sheltering process from emergency to recovery

  3. Emergency shelter options • Settlement options • Collective centres • Host families • Self settlement • Camps Reconstruction intervention options Emergency shelters Repair damaged houses Assistancemethod options Cash/vouchers Technical support Construction materials Household NFIs Emergency shelters solutions GLOBAL LEVEL TENTS SHELTER KIT

  4. IFRC Shelter Kit, What it is… • Includes 2 tarpaulins, tools and fixings. The kit is a collection of tools and accessories suitable for repairing houses or building emergency shelters. • Contrary to the tent, this does not have the supports/ frame for the structure and the roof • A new product • Flexible uses • Cost effectiveness • Fast and simple to deploy • Reusable

  5. IFRC Shelter Kit Flexibility Can be combined with existing materials such as timber, bamboo and metal roof sheets to construct temporary shelters or used to repair damaged houses. Cost effectiveness Approximately 60 US dollars – An opportunity for maximising the shelter assistance that can be provided with available financial resources.

  6. IFRC Shelter Kit Fast and simple to deploy Can be simply prepositioned in global, regional or national warehouses and can be readily deployed without requiring specialist handling. Reusable The materials can be reused in recovery process to upgrade the shelter in a more permanent housing solution and/or to support other livelihood activities.

  7. Before the disaster From emergency to recovery The Shelter kit strategy… Logistic capacity and strategy: Deployment of 5,000 kits within 48 hours and a further of 15,000 kits within 14 days in the Zone Disaster Preparedness Activities Emergency Shelter response Step 1 Emergency Shelter response Step 2 Natural Disaster Actions Stock prepositioning Trainings Local Market study Actions 1 Quick assessment Coordination 1st strategy Selection beneficiaries Trainings Distribution • Actions 2 • Assessment • Coordination • Define shelter strategy • Add supports • Cash • Material • Technical support • NFI… • Evaluation phase 1

  8. Strengths and weaknesses… Advantages A more economical response than the tent Re-usable, a flexible design, for sustainable assistance Challenges Suitable to the context (climate, social/economic…) integrate with local building materials available for the structure Bring assistance and technical advices Build a shelter strategy taking to account recovery phase

  9. IFRC shelter kit - Actions in 2008… • Updated distribution • Myanmar:40.000 units • Haiti:3.500 units • Cuba:1.000 units • Nepal:12.000 units • Contingency plan - Prepositioning • Global level, Prepositioning strategy of 29,000 shelter kits - GSP 2008 funding • 5000 Dubai, 7000 KL, 6000 Panama, 4000 Harare, 7000 Nairobi • Regional level, Prepositioning strategy of 2,500 shelter kits for WCA - GSP 2008 funding • R&D - SK task group • Review of the shelter kits specifications • Training (SK training, Mali) • Evaluation (Satisfaction survey, Myanmar)

  10. IFRC shelter kit - Development for 2009… • Finalise Emergency Shelter solutions specifications – EIC • Scaling –up the prepositioning of shelter solutions • Optimise the use of the shelter kit • - Develop guidelines in collaboration with SRC • - Disseminate training in collaboration with FRC and Zones • (Caribbean, America, Asia and Africa)

  11. Shelter kit training… • Introduce the concept of sheltering • To have a good understanding of Emergency shelter approach • To prepare action plan in pre- disaster situation • To improve the use of the Shelter Kit and best practices corresponding to the context • To built capacity and disseminate instructions on communities level • To design emergency shelter using the SK component suitable to the local context • To track the technique and design improvements with local additional materials requires (type, quantity, quality, availability…)

  12. Shelter kit guidelines… Shelter kit manual • Strategy instructions • - When to use it? • - How to use it? • - How to improve it? • Technical instructions • - Uses/repair the tools/fixings • - Instruction on the layout • - Instructions on the structure • - Instructions on the fixings • - The improvements • - Matrix of basic shelter designs IN PROCESS… With the SRC Timber guidelines

  13. Shelter kit evaluation… • Satisfaction survey addressed to beneficiaries of the SK • An evaluation template already experimented in Myanmar • Systematise the evaluation to : • - To gain information about the shelter kit appropriateness • - To determine overall beneficiary satisfaction with the actual shelter kit specifications • - To determine overall beneficiaries satisfaction and information regarding for long term shelter needs • - To determine the effectiveness of the distribution • - To support the capacity building of NS in surveying activities and analysis • - To identify future regional needs/adjustments of SK

  14. Tent- Actions in 2008… • Collaboration with UNHCR and ICRC for standardisation tent model • Analysis of tent models • Development of a new tent specification TENTS COMPARISON TABLE –2008

  15. Tent- Development for 2009… • Review the tent specifications – EIC • Develop further collaboration with UNHCR and ICRC for standardisation other shelter products/solutions • Research and development of a winterisation kit • Scaling –up the prepositioning of shelter solutions FAMILY TENT, 16m² plus 2 vestibules, double fold

  16. Thanks for your interest !

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