Emergency and Transitional Shelter Concepts

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Emergency and Transitional Shelter Concepts
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Definition of terms

1. What is emergency shelter?
2. What is transitional shelter?
3. What are household NFIs?

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Emergency Shelter

• What is emergency shelter?
• The provision of basic and immediate shelter
  needs necessary to ensure the survival of
  disaster affected persons

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Emergency Shelter

• includes rapid response solutions such as
  tents, insulation materials, other temporary
  emergency shelter solutions, and shelter related
  non-food items.
• IFRC Emergency Shelter Cluster
  Contingency Planning Process

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Transitional Shelter

• What is emergency shelter?
• What is transitional shelter?
• Transitional shelter provides
• a habitable covered living space
• a secure, healthy living environment
• privacy and dignity for those living within it
• sheltering during the period between a conflict
  or natural disaster and the achievement of a
  durable shelter solution

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Household NFIs

• What is emergency shelter?
• What is transitional shelter?
• What are household NFIs?
• Items necessary to create shelter, including
  blankets, mattresses, flooring, stoves, water
  containers, clothing, cooking sets, sometimes
  tents and construction materials

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Transition settlement displaced populations
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Priorities of non-food items in cold climates
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Shelter materials
Humanitarian timber project
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Materials Roofing
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Materials Structure/Walls
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Household NFIs
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Shelter-to-housing process
Transition phase
Emergency phase
Time line
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Emergency to Permanent
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Shelter options Dispersed settlement
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Shelter optionsGrouped settlement
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12 common assistance approaches
Household non-food items (NFIs)- cooking sets,
blankets, etc. Shelter non-food items (NFIs)-
construction timber, tools, etc. Transitional
shelter- habitable, covered, healthy, secure,
private living space achievement of a durable
shelter solution Community labour- for simple
design projects and traditions of
self-building Contracted labour- for large or
complex projects, infrastructure Direct labour-
for small projects and rapid response Cash-
dispersed directly to beneficiaries in
phases Vouchers- an alternative to cash for
materials or services Loans and guarantees- when
there is stable access to supplies and repayment
is feasible Local information centres- for info
throughout the response Capacity building-
integrates training Technical expertise- to
support all assistance methods
From Shelter Centre, Shelter Training 08b, Nov.
2008
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Instant Assessment

• In the following photos
• What are the environmental implications of the
  information?

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What is impact of the disaster on the environment?
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What is the impact of the emergency response on
the environment?
Mud Slide Colombia Photos CHF
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What is the impact of the emergency response on
the environment?
Transporting wood to camp
IDP shelters, Panjwai, Kandahar, Afghanistan,
Afghanistan 2003
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What is the impact of the emergency response on
the environment?
Emergency shelter Kenya, 2007 CHF International
Emergency shelter Haiti 2008
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Emergency shelters examples
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What is the impact of the NFI distribution on the
environment?
fuel for distribution, Maslack camp, Herat,
Afghanistan, Afghanistan 2002
stoves for distribution, Maslack camp, Herat,
Afghanistan, Afghanistan 2002
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What is the impact of the transitional shelter
response on the environment?
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Transitional shelter example
Photos CHF
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Permanent housing examples
Architecture for Humanity, Sri Lanka
Architecture for Humanity, Bam, Iran
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Exercise Environmental implications

• See page __
• Divide into four groups
• Each group will be assigned a specific disaster
  phase and one or two of the shelter types for
  displaced populations
• Each group will analyze the environmental issues
  or implications for their shelter type for that
  stage of disaster response
• Consider what natural resources are used and
  where the resources come from

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Exercise Environmental implications
Shelter type Immediate emergency response Emergency Shelter Transitional Shelter Permanent Shelter
Host families Group A
Rural self-settled Group B
Urban self-settled Collective centres (mass shelters) Group C
Self-settled camps Planned camps Group D
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Key Points

1. The primary role of the Environmental Advisor is
   to be an effective advocate for practical shelter
   solutions that have the least possible negative
   environmental impact.
2. Transitional shelter should be made of materials
   that can be moved and reused.
3. Optimize use of debris to use it as resource of
   building materials and to clear site.
4. The Emergency Shelter Cluster may assist in
   setting up an IDP camp, but transition and
   resettlement is not within the mandate of the
   ESC.
5. Build back safer and build back sustainably