Shelter Meeting 23
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Camp Coordination / Management -
Education -
Early Recovery -
Accountability to Affected People -
Age -
Emergency Telecommunications -
Environment -
Food Security -
Gender -
Health -
Logistics -
Mental Health / Psycho Social Support -
Nutrition -
Other -
Protection -
Child Protection -
Gender Based Violence
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Housing, Land and Property
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Shelter and Settlement -
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene
Shelter Centre, in collaboration with our host, IFRC and the IASC Global Shelter Cluster, as well as our sponsors' InterAction and USAID/ BHA, took pleasure in convening Shelter Meeting 23 on 23rd June 2023, hosted by IFRC at Chemin des Crêts 17, 1209 Genève, Switzerland.
The Shelter Meeting is the longest-running discussion space for the sector, always involving: local and development actors; and academia; governments; IASC CCCM, GPC, and GWC clusters; non-cluster agencies such as MSF and ICRC; donors; and IFIs.
AGENDA
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08:30 |
Reception and Welcome Coffee / Online welcome on the all-day plenary |
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09:00 |
Introduction and Agenda, Welcome to online and in-person participants Joseph Levy Brown, Shelter Centre Intern |
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09:15 |
Host Introduction, Ela Serdaroglu, GSC/IFRC, and Brett Moore, GSC/UNHCR |
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09:30 |
Keynote Speech, Pakistan Flood 2022: Rehabilitation of one million households at a time Yasmeen Lari, RIBA Royal Gold Medal winning humanitarian architect |
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Plenary Discussions and Presentations |
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09:50 |
Presentation on the work and strategy of BHA, Charles Setchell, BHA |
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10:05 |
Presentation on Sharing inter-cluster and sector collaborations updates – GWC, GHC, GNC, GFSC |
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10:35 |
Plenary discussion on Climate and Environmental Impact Consultation– hosted by Marco Menestrina, InterAction |
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10:55 |
Presentation on Pathways home - Guidance for supporting shelter self-recovery – Sue Webb, with inputs from Bill Flinn, Charles Parrack, Olivier Moles, CARE International UK |
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11:05 |
Coffee break / Online discussion and feedback on the all-day plenary |
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1:35 |
Panel then plenary discussion on Advancing the discussion on private sector engagement in the Shelter Meeting 20 minute panel discussion Moderator Dave Hodgkin, Independent Shelter and Settlements practitioner Panellists: Kareem Elbayar, UN OCHAConnecting Business initiative (CBi); Giulia Jole Sechi, Miyamoto Relief 20 minute plenary discussion 5 minute wrap-up, potentially a vote on whether participants agree with this approach |
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12:20 |
Plenary discussion on Local Leadership Consultation – hosted by Juli King, InterAction and Fiona Kelling, Principal Consultant |
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13:20 |
Breakout Stream leads advertise their afternoon ‘streams’ |
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13:30 |
Lunch / Online discussion and feedback on the all-day plenary |
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Breakout Stream 1 |
Shelter Teams and Tools Engagement with staff to share tools and good practice Moderator: Chiara Jasna Vaccaro |
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14:30 |
Group discussion on Shelter Teams and tools
Danish Refugee Council (DRC) Miguel Acebrón García de Eulate, Better Shelter Sishuo Zhu, Danish Refugee Council (DRC) |
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15:15
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Presentation on Fire in the camp - the law of unintended consequence
Paul Chamberlain and |
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15:30 |
Coffee break / Online discussion and feedback |
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16:00 |
Presentation on IFRC’s Safe Homes Programme, Europe Region
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16:15 |
Presentation on The Shelter Sustainability Assessment Tool
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Breakout Stream 2 |
Shelter Linkages and Fora Inter-stakeholder and regional linkages and collaborations Moderator: Seki Hirano |
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14:30 |
Presentation on North West Syria response and strategy in conflict vs natural disaster conditions
Mohammed Alamir, CARE |
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15:00
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Presentation on Miyamoto Relief’s engagements in Afghanistan
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15:15 |
Presentation on How can we better support in-country engineering resources with international private sector expertise?
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15:30 |
Coffee break / Online discussion and feedback |
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16:00 |
Group discussion, Shelter Fora Panel
Moderator
Panellists Chiara Jasna Vaccaro, Africa Shelter Forum Seki Hirano, Asia Shelter Forum Lilia Blades Martinez, LAC Shelter Forum Mohamed Hilmi, MENA Shelter Forum
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Breakout Stream 3 |
Shelter Research and Initiatives The importance of linking research to practise, with examples of innovative shelter initiatives Moderator: Charles Kelly |
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14:30 |
Group discussion on The GSC’s five research streams: how research really influences practice
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15:00
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Presentation on The circularity of emergency shelters
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15:15 |
Presentation on Reuse, Repurposing, Recycling: Making Aid Go Further; Reducing Environmental Impacts C. Kelly, Environment Community of Practice. |
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15:30 |
Coffee break / Online discussion and feedback |
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16:00 |
Presentation on The H7 Shelter Project
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16:15 |
Presentation on Beyond shelter: a holistic and integrated approach
Steve Chiu |
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16:30 |
Presentation on Circular transitional housing: how to incorporate circularity principles in transitional housing units
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Breakout Stream 4 |
Shelter Localisation and Approaches Discussion and presentations on effective localisation projects and future steps implied Moderator: Alberto Piccioli |
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14:30 |
Presentation on IOM Nigeria’s housing design competition
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14:45
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Presentation on Amar ghar amar ashroy (my house my life): efficient and cyclone resilient housing (mini cyclone shelter) for coastal Bangladesh
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15:00 |
Presentation on Localisation experiences in Nepal and Pakistan |
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15:15 |
Presentation on Localising a cost-benefit analysis for hurricane retrofitting of housing in Dominica
Anna Pavan, Louise Foulkes,and Oluwaseun Okusanya,
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15:30 |
Coffee break / Online discussion and feedback |
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16:00 |
Presentation on Provision of shelter/NFI assistance to migrants in transit: the experience of Mexico
with the support of the United Nations Network on Migration |
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16:15 |
Presentation on Conduits of localisation: local impacts of diaspora safe shelter interventions |
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16:45 |
Breakout Stream Wrap-Up |
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17:00 |
Breakout Streams return to Plenary |
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17:10 |
Plenary feedback Summary of online discussions to plenary Ahmed Alyan, Shelter Centre Intern |
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17:20 |
Closing Remarks Tom Corsellis, Shelter Centre |
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19:30 |
Dinner, La Buvette des Bains de Pâquis |
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Shelter Meeting 22
Shelter Meeting 22 was hosted live, globally and in-person in Geneva, on Friday 8th July, 2022. 280 participants registered online and in-person.
The theme for this year was localisation. Presentations were held by local non-governmental organisations, international non-governmental organisations, Red Cross Movement member organisations, UN agencies, IASC Global WASH Cluster, donor representatives from ECHO FCDO and USAID BHA, and academic institutions.
A special thank you to IASC Global Shelter Cluster, IFRC,UNHCR for hosting us and InterAction, USAID/BHA for funding this year’s Shelter Meeting.
The Shelter Meeting has developed and supported a global community of practice of humanitarian technical practitioners through a biannual conference, with participation in-person and through live video conferencing. Presentations and discussion worldwide include the prioritisation of common activities, sharing good practice and the peer review of projects. Tabulated below is the schedule of events that happened in the Meeting hyperlinked with related resources used.
AGENDA