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Global shelter sector preparedness: the cluster process and how to...
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): Emergency Shelter Cluster
Date: Jul 2008
Location: Global - Multiple countries

The speakers described the Cluster system as part of a reshaping process of the humanitarian sector.  One intention of this process was to improve preparedness and predictability. UNHCR is to lead...

Bamboo guidelines project
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): Architects for Aid
Date: Jul 2008
Location: Global - Multiple countries

The speaker outlined their project plan for the development of guidelines supporting the use of bamboo in humanitarian response. Regional workshops had already been undertaken to inform its...

Overview: improving humanitarian shelter responses - a collaborative...
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): Habitat For Humanity
Date: Nov 2013
Location: Global - Multiple countries

This joint research aimed to provide detailed longitudinal evidence of the successes, failures and lessons from previous Christian Aid (CA) and Habitat for Humanity (HFH) emergency interventions...

Global Shelter Cluster update
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent SocietiesUnited Nations High Commissioner for RefugeesInter Agency Standing CommitteeEmergency Shelter Cluster
Date: Jun 2010
Location: Global - Multiple countries

Surendra Panday (UNHCR) and Miguel Urquia (IFRC) presented on behalf of the IASC Global Shelter Cluster to provide an update on the Cluster's activities in 2010.
Humanitarian timber - project update
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent SocietiesCARE InternationalUnited Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
Date: Jul 2008
Location: Global - Multiple countries

UN/OCHA, IFRC and CARE International gave an update on the progress in developing the guidelines on the use of timber in emergencies. The organisations reported that the guidelines are now in the...

IASC Emergency Shelter Cluster
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent SocietiesUnited Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
Date: Dec 2009
Location: Global - Multiple countries

An update on the Emergency Cluster Shelter by UNHCR and IFRC.
ECB IASC Sub-Working Group on Accountability to Affected Populations
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): CARE International
Date: Jun 2012
Location: Global - Multiple countries

This presentation covered topics including-

1. ECB project; system wide approach (field, agency and sector)

2. Accountability cloud

3. Stakeholder power relations

4....

GUIDANCE NOTE Protocol of Engagement between Local Governments and...
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): The Global Alliance for Urban Crises (GAUC)
Date: May 2019
Location: Global - Multiple countries

When emergencies occur in urban areas, humanitarian and development actors do not necessarily know how to work with, or in support of, local governments responsible for their respective...

Livelihoods Standards in Humanitarian Practice
Content Type: Resource
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): LEGS & MERS
Date: Aug 2023
Location: Global - Multiple countries

This paper discusses how livelihoods-based minimum standards and guidelines provide tools and frameworks to change how decision makers currently design emergency response interventions. The paper...