Emergency Shelter Coordinator Training

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Emergency Shelter Coordinator Training

• Community Based Approaches
• Bobby Lambert

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Session Overview

• A cross-cutting issue evolving thinking
• Rights and principles
• Evidence Evaluations
• Whose crisis?
• Perspective and orientation
• Practicalities

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CBA Rights Principles

• IHL, Refugee Law, Humanitarian Charter, Deng
  Principles
• Code of conduct (RC NGO)
• Build disaster response on local capacities
• involve beneficiaries in the management
• reduce future vulnerabilities
• accountable to those we seek to assist
• recognize disaster victims as dignified human
  beings.

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CBA Rights Principles

• GHD (2003)
• ensure, to the greatest possible extent, adequate
  involvement of beneficiaries in the design,
  implementation, monitoring and evaluation of
  humanitarian response
• Rights and Principles right thing to do

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CBA Evaluation evidence

• the international community needs a fundamental
  re-orientation from supplying aid to supporting
  and facilitating communities own relief and
  recovery priorities (Telford J et al 2005, TEC)
• Governments, donors and aid agencies must
  recognize that families and communities drive
  their own recovery (Clinton, W J 2006)
• Participation leads to improved programming
  (ALNAP Lessons from evaluations, Beck T 2005)
• Evaluations and evidence -? right thing to do

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Whose crisis? What community?

• The IDPs, refugees, homeless
• Host community
• CBOs, Religious organisations
• Local NGOs
• Commercial
• Government local, regional, national
• International community

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Lessons - Vulnerable groups

• Need for a pro-poor focus
• Age, gender, diversity to be taken into account
• Risk reduction whose risks perceptions
• Livelihoods - in fullest sense

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Who participates?

• Classically How do we get them to
  participate in our humanitarian project??
• A reorientationHow can we participate in their
  relief and recovery?

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When can CBA start?

• From day 1?
• Who are the first responders?
• When / where do internationals come in?
• How can you support CBA?

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Variations on a theme

• Owner-driven (with govt support?)
• Subsidiary (agencies input to govt system)
• Participatory (agencies lead, homeless
  participate)

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CBA Tools and techniques

• Representation
• Communication
• Participatory Planning tools
• Mapping, ranking, on-site activities
• Can be very quick (latrine example?)
• Link with other sectorsshelter is a key link .
  crucial!

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Session Review

• Community Based Approaches
• Principles Practice
• Perspective and Orientation
• More so than tools and techniques
• A luxury we can ill affordOr a necessity we
  cant ignore?