Emergency Shelter Coordinator Training

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Emergency Shelter Coordinator Training

• Introduction to Emergency Shelter
• Bobby Lambert

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Session Overview

• Shelter Needs and capacities
• Overview of options
• Link to cross-cutting issues
• Key Factors to consider
• An outline process
• Linked to Course objective
• Have a good generalist awareness of emergency
  shelter options, issues and current thinking
  relevant to the coordination of emergency shelter
  responses.

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Shelter why, whats it for?
Participants to say why flip

• Protection - health
• Security feeling safer
• Privacy Dignity
• LivelihoodsEssential activities?
• Others.

A habitable covered living space, providing a
secure, healthy living environment with privacy
and dignity to those within it (Corsellis
Vitale 2004)
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Shelter What is it? (Flip)
Again, participants what is it? flip

• Clothing, blankets
• Shelter (roof)
• Mattress
• Wind proofing
• Insulation - warm room
• Stoves fuel
• Sanitation?

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Shelter who, when, how?

• Who needs shelter?
• Varying needs, age, gender, disability etc
• Protection issues - location, construction?
• When?
• How will shelter needs change?
• Seasons ?
• How will it be provided?
• And what is our role (as Cluster Leads) in this?

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Shelter Support Mapping Exercise

• Groups of 4 (20 minutes)
• Refer to Pakistan scenario and others you know
  or might anticipate
• Flip 1 Map shelter support mechanisms(How will
  people access shelter, now and later?)
• Flip 2 Their Capacities Needs?(Your
  preliminary estimate how to assess?)
• Plenary review (10 minutes)

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Support Considerations

• Understand existing support mechanisms
• Support and enhance or
• Duplicate, replace or destroy
• Livelihoods
• Of the homeless
• Of affected people, local national economy
• Economic impact of various shelter options (local
  vs international procurements)

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ESC Shelter Support Role

• What role will ESC take in this context?
• Supporting a government programme
• Supporting a civic-society programme
• Running a shelter programme
• Exit strategy?

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Emergency Settlement Patterns

• Not displaced
• Shelter near home / with neighbours?
• Damage assessment - triage?
• Displaced
• Dispersed settlement
• Host families
• Rural self-settlement
• Urban self-settlement
• Grouped settlement
• Collective Centres
• Self-settled camps
• Planned camps

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Phases of response

• Emergency (days ? ? months)
• Days
• Immediate life-saving shelter needs
• Host population local government CBOs
• Weeks
• Longer term health needs
• External agency support
• Months into transitional shelter (maybe)
• Exit strategy. Mind the gap
• Transitional (months? ? Years) ( to what)
• Providing time to implement long term shelter
• Permanent (? ? years)

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Longer term considerations

• Community based approaches
• Owner-driven (with govt support?)
• Owner Participatory (agencies lead)
• Contractors (local, regional, international)
• Land issues central
• Pinheiro principles
• Return to homes and property
• Bear long term in mind from day one!

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Resources Capacities

• Skills
• Which skills? relate to programme design
• Locally available training needed?
• Money
• Amounts
• Management finance facilities
• Materials
• Local or international procurement
• Logistics

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Related sector issues

• Access Logistics
• Security Protection (Protection Cluster)
• Water Sanitation (WASH cluster)
• Camps - site planning (CCCM cluster)
• Standards (Govt, Local, SPHERE, Other?)
• Environmental considerations
• Materials sourcing disposal (timber, plastic
  etc)
• Site selection planning
• Others

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Risk Management

• Risk Management framework
• Hazard, Probability, Mitigation, Risk (aware of
  this?)
• Risks and benefits
• Whose risks whose perceptions?
• Comparative risks (earthquake, disease or
  education?)
• Some hazards related to shelter
• Building or shelter collapse (earthquake, wind,
  rain)
• Fire (prevention response)
• Flooding (siting, seasons?)
• Other

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Shelter options a process

• Agree Role of Shelter Cluster(vis-à-vis
  Government, Other actors)
• Review policy standards(Community, Govt,
  SPHERE, Agency)
• Consultation Participation(by whom with
  whom?)
• Assessment
• Phases of response, exit strategy?
• Capacities and Needs?
• Integrated assessment?
• Emergency Shelter Options
• Identify and select

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Emergency Shelter IntroductionSession Review

• Support mechanismsStrengthen enhance (not
  replace)
• Settlement patterns
• Phases of response
• Resources, capacities, livelihoods
• Link to other sectors
• Consider cross-cutting issues
• Exit strategy
• A human utility, not just a big NFI