Shelter Meeting 13b
Host and topics – USAID/OFDA and Habitat for Humanity
USAID/OFDA and Habitat for Humanity very kindly agreed to act as co-hosts, following the tradition of different agencies hosting different Shelter Meetings.
Topic 1: sector knowledge management, including the launch of the revised Shelter and Settlement library, funded by USAID/OFDA.
Topic 2: sector capacity building, including the initial consultation around a new 1-week shelter and settlement training, also funded by USAID/OFDA.
Draft agenda - subject to change
| Day 1 | Shelter Meeting 13b | Tuesday 29th October 2013 |
| 08:45 | Arrival and coffee | |
| 09:00 | Welcome, agenda, and introduction | Shelter Centre |
| 09:15 | Welcome address | Kip Scheidler, Habitat for Humanity |
| 09:30 | Collective advocacy | Mohammed Hilmi, InterAction |
| 09:45 | Built to collapse. From transitional shelter to sustainable habitat in urban India | Marco Ferrario, Micro Homes Solutions |
| 10:00 | Comparative Study of plastic sheeting materials and shade nets | Cecilia Braedt, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Shelter Research Unit |
| 10:15 | Kip Scheidler, Habitat for Humanity | |
| 10:25 | Let them eat cake! | Kate Crawford, University College London |
| 10:40 | Building for safety project update | Charles Parrack, CENDEP and Sonia Molina, BRC |
| 10:50 | The Peninsula principles on climate displacement within states | Khaled Hassine, Displacement Solutions |
| 11:00 | Coffee break / Break out Sign-up | |
| 11:30 | One Room Shelter Program - building resilience through shelter reconstruction | Manuel Pereira, International Organization for Migration |
| 12:00 | UK Shelter Forum - update | Victoria Maynard, Habitat for Humanity GB and Laura Heykoop, Independent Consultant |
| 12:15 | Linking policy, practice and evidence in post-disaster shelter | Victoria Maynard, Habitat for Humanity GB |
| 12:30 | USAID/OFDA One-week Shelter and Settlements Training Course | Tom Corsellis, Shelter Centre |
| Introduction to breakout groups | ||
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 |
BREAKOUT GROUPS One-week Shelter and Settlements Training Course in the context of broader sector capacity building |
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| 15:00 | Feedback & conclusions | |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 | Haiti | Gaetano Vivo, World Bank |
| 16:20 | Irantzu Serra Lasa, American Red Cross | |
| 16:35 | Refugee Housing Unit | Monica Noro, UNHCR and Johan Karlsson |
| 17:05 | ROFI transitional tent | Berner Olsen, ROFI |
| 17:20 | Transitional tent | Frank Merks, Losberger RDS and NRS |
| New sheltering ideas | ||
| 17h35 | Houses built from accommodation cabins | Pablo Bris, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid |
| 19:30 | Shelter Meeting dinner: Il Fornello Napoletano |
| Day2 | Shelter Meeting 13b | Wednesday 30th October 2013 |
| 08:45 | Arrival and coffee | |
| 09:00 | Looking back at reconstruction | Theo Schilderman, Building and Social Housing Foundation |
| 09:30 | Lessons from Central America | Kurt Rhyner, EcoSur network |
| 09:45 | Post-Disaster Shelter: Ten Designs | Joseph Ashmore, International Organization for Migration; Gary Lide, AMEC |
| 10:15 | Sustainability assessment of 8 transitional shelters | Edwin Zea Escamilla, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich |
| 10:35 | Shelter in the Philippines: Re-use of uprooted trees (typhoon Bopha) | Andrés Casal, ICRC |
| 10:50 | Increasing housing supply; sheltering urban and non-camp-based refugees in Lebanon and Jordan | Jake Zarins, Norwegian Refugee Council |
| 11:05 | Syria and Lebanon | Julien Mulliez, Save the Children |
| 11:20 | Coffee break |
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| 11:45 | Shelter Cluster update, Accountability Working Group | Joseph Ashmore, International Organization for Migration and Vincent Annoni, Impact Initiatives |
| 12:00 | CCCM Cluster update | Andrew Cusack, UNHCR |
| 12:15 | Security of Tenure in Humanitarian Shelter Operations | Jake Zarins, Norwegian Refugee Council; Victoria Stodart, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies |
| 12:30 | DOMO - a construction kit transitional shelter | Danier Kerber, morethanshelters |
| 12:45 | Protection Cluster update | Sarah Khan, UNHCR |
| 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 | Post Disaster Shelter and Energy Efficiency – A Scoping of Information and Issues Paper | Charles Kelly, ProAct Network |
| 14:05 | Re-launch and presentation of the Shelter and Settlement Library, supported in part by USAID/OFDA | Tom Corsellis, Shelter Centre |
| 14:20 |
BREAKOUT GROUPS |
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| 15:00 | Feedback & conclusions | |
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 | Launch of new website | Ian O'Donnell, American Red Cross |
| 16:10 | Long term shelter solutions in Iraq: case study | Dyfed Aubrey, UN-Habitat |
| 16:25 | Cordaid Shelter Program Management Database | Jan-Willem Wegdam, Cordaid |
| 16:35 | Reconstructing the city: integrating urban design into humanitarian responses | Alison Killing, Independent Consultant and Kate Crawford, University College London |
| 16:50 | Light and energy poverty: improving the quality of life for refugees | Steve Huff, The Light Foundation |
| 17:05 | Overview: improving humanitarian shelter responses - a collaborative research | Mario Flores, Habitat for Humanity |
| 17:15 | Humanitarian shelter and development | Anjali Beam, International Housing Coalition |
Launch of the revised Shelter and Settlement Library, funded by USAID/OFDA
Shelter Centre launched the revised ‘Shelter and Settlement Library’ at Shelter Meeting 13b. The Library includes innovative features:
user-upload, in any language, real-time; and user-generated libraries, similar to ‘playlists’, to support specific topics, operations and training.
The Library will be modified heavily from the Beta version following invaluable feedback from our Regional Advisory Group members. RAG members play the key role in uploading content and promoting the Library within their professional networks.
In November, we will also be holding meetings in Asia and possibly Africa or the Middle East, in order to introduce the innovative features of the library and elicit further content in national languages, increasing the visibility of those agencies. If your regional and national offices might be interested in participating in these meetings or in joining our Regional Advisory Groups, please email library@sheltercentre.org or contact us at the meeting in October.
To-date, over 1,000 new documents have been identified from the 30 countries at most risk worldwide, including a significant proportion in national languages, adding to the thousands of documents on the current library. We are exploring with partners extending the new Library to all sectors, as a global humanitarian library.
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