Shelter

RedR UK: Shelter Essentials, 11 February 2010

November 30, 2009 - 5:43pm

There are no easy answers in shelter. But are you asking the right questions?

Architecture related aid-work positions

September 28, 2009 - 11:18am

I have a bachelor en Architecture and have been working as an architect for 5 years in several european countries.

Workshops in shelter building

June 27, 2009 - 8:21pm

RESET is offering hands-on training workshops using timber, straw bale, and rammed earth, at University of East London in July 2009.

New International SP jobs posted

May 21, 2009 - 9:51pm

Current Needs with Samaritan's Purse International Relief

Deputy Country Director - Monrovia, Liberia
Program Manager, WATSAN - Canicado, Mozambique
Country Logistics Manager - North Sudan

Logistics and Supply chain Management of Pakistan

May 14, 2009 - 1:23am

1. Crisis Management ,operations Management and Logistics & Supply chain Management are not well established in Pakistan Government Sectors

dynamic web site on transitional settlement and reconstruction

November 17, 2008 - 12:22pm

Shelter Centre is NGO registered in Switzerland which supports the sector of humanitarian operations that responds to the transitional settlement and recons

Assessing Local Capacity & Reconstruction in Aceh

October 7, 2008 - 8:23am

Assessing Local Capacity and Reconstruction
Assistance in Post-tsunami Aceh

Report of the Aceh Community Assistance
Research Project (ACARP)
December 2007

Participating Agencies

Meager Living of Haitians Is Wiped Out by Storms

September 11, 2008 - 6:05am

By MARC LACEY
Published: September 10, 2008

GONAÏVES, Haiti — Their cupboards were virtually bare before the winds started whipping, the skies opened up and this seaside city filled like...

Flood situation worsens in Assam, over 10 lakh [1M] people affected

September 4, 2008 - 5:11am

Sushanta Talukdar

Majuli remains worst hit as level of flood water continues to rise

Shelter Essentials Workshop (08015), 30 September, London UK

August 21, 2008 - 12:58pm

Managing the implementation of shelter programmes is a fundamental part of response in the aftermath of disaster as well as in early recovery situations.

Sustainable Building Guidelines - post-Tsunami

July 26, 2008 - 7:59pm

Skat - Swiss Resource Centre and Consultancies for Development prepared the publication "After the Tsunami- Sustainable Building Guidelines for South-East Asia", which is based on Skat's longstandin

Aid crisis from food, oil and climate change

March 17, 2008 - 12:42pm

How many people are realising that there is a gathering storm of crises compounding together to create a choronic humanitarian disaster beyond our capacity to cope ?

Planning to start Ghanaian orphanage and/or school

December 9, 2007 - 9:01pm

Dear all,

I have just returned from a 4 month volunteering placement in an orphanage in Ghana. It has completely changed my life and every day I think about going back and doing more.

I have given myself a year to talk to people, fundraise and plan and then I will go back and start a project of my own. The reason I want to start my own project (rather than support those already established) is because I have seen some corruption in some of the orphanages in Ghana and so I would know where the money is going and because I feel the need to do it. I believe that I have alot to offer and I would be so happy to live in a place where people are so friendly and generous when they have so little.

Literature on cash-based responses

April 18, 2007 - 1:01am

I just read the advice page on cash-based responses. I would like to add one more excellent source for "further reading": Oxfam's 'Cash-Transfer Programming in Emergencies: A Practical Guide' at http://publications.oxfam.org.uk/oxfam/display.asp?searchterm=cash&isbn=0855985631

Cash

April 17, 2007 - 11:42am

Cash-based responses in emergencies

People need money.  In an emergency, it may sometimes be quicker and more appropriate to give them money rather than things.  If they need food

International Conference On Disaster Management 2007

February 20, 2007 - 1:00pm

Responsenet in association with Omaxe Foundation is organizing an International conference on Facilitation of Supply Chain for Diasaters and Learnings of Stakeholders for proactive scalable Collaborations on 19th March 2007, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India

Aid groups pull out of Darfur refugee camp after rape

January 24, 2007 - 3:33pm

According to an article in the Independent, UK on 22 January 2007 by Alex Duval Smith in Paris:

Aid groups have suspended operations in Darfur and may pull out of the Sudanese province after a French relief worker was raped, another sexually assaulted and an Oxfam employee was severely beaten at the world's largest refugee camp.

Time Frame for Shelter Construction

January 12, 2007 - 4:18am

I was in search of some study paper which has attempted to set time frame for construction of either temporary shelter or permanent shelter aftermath any disaster. I found some studies discussing the time spent in building permanent shelters after some disasters like Northbridge Earthquake, Taiwan Earthquake, Gujrat earthquake. But I could not found out any cutting lines. I know that time depends on many seen and unseen factors, context, extend of disaster, country, region etc. But working very close to the community I have realized that due to the lack of guidelines regarding time frame, unrealistic times bounds are declared/set by the Govt bodies/politician/donors and the worst affected are the affected community. As there hopes, planning are broken time and again, the poor shelter engineers are squeezed, burnt off, got frustrated and finally run away from the battle field. On the contrary, while speeding up and competing to beat the time leads to poor construction, in appropriate housings, no value of money spent and there are ample of such examples even in Sri Lanka after the Tsunami. I agree that time not the only factor for such deeds but a major contributor.

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plastic sheeting guidelines - project announcement

December 30, 2006 - 3:47pm

I am currently compiling a booklet (funded by Oxfam and IFRC) on the use and procurement of plastic sheeting in humanitarian relief. (www.plastic-sheeting.org for more information)

I would be especially grateful for:

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