CONTRIBUTING TO FUND THE GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN SHELTER RESPONSE

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• CONTRIBUTING TO FUND THE GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN
  SHELTER RESPONSE
• THE HAITI EXPERIENCE

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Objectives of the presentation

• Provide an overview of the global envelope
  allocated by DG ECHO to emergency shelter
  operations.
• Briefly describe on the Shelter Funding Approach
  currently adopted by DG ECHO in Haiti

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1. ECHO AND SHELTER1.1 Budget breakdown by
sectors of intervention (Global operations
2009)

• MAIN SECTORS
• Largest share of funding (38) is for food and
  nutrition ( mainly under the Food Aid Budget
  Line)
• Health (16) and WASH (15) are the other main
  areas of activity.
• Only 6 of DG ECHO total funds was allocated to
  shelter in 2009

Source ECHO annual report 2009 (Based on the
main area of activity covered by ECHO grant
agreements
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Global Funding of shelter operations (2002-2009)
Total Budget

• EURO

  2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Shelter Budget (Millions EUR) 18 37 22 62 43 67 83 70

• Since 2002, an average 7 of TOTAL DG ECHO
  annual operational funds has been allocated to
  the shelter sector.

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Global funding of shelter operations (without
Food Aid Budget Line)2002-2009
Food Aid BL transferred from DG DEV to DG ECHO

• If one excludes the Food Aid B.L, the average
  annual share of operational funds allocated to
  shelter projects has increased from
• from 6 (from 2002-2006) to 11 (from
  2007to 2009)

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2. FUNDING SHELTER OPERATIONS IN HAITI2.1 Haiti
EQ - Contracts awarded by ECHO 2.1.1 Primary
Emergency Emergency Financing Decisions

• TOTAL BUDGET
• EUR 21.1 MILLIONS
• SHELTER AND PROTECTION
• EUR 7.1 MILLIONS

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2.1.2 Ad-Hoc Financing Decision

• TOTAL BUDGET
• EUR 80.6 MILLIONS
• SHELTER AND PROTECTION
• EUR 29.9 MILLIONS

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2.2 ECHO Shelter Approach Haiti

• Budget allocated to shelter interventions
  (through ECHOs PED/ED AD HOC Financing
  decisions)
• EUR 37 millions (/- 60 of ECHO shelter
  annual budget)
• Why the need for a shelter approach?
• 1. Shelter regarded as the sector hat requires
  the greatest funding commitment in the scope of
  the humanitarian response to the EQ
• 2. Absence of a DG- ECHO Shelter policy
  framework
• Guiding principles
• ECHO core mandate
• Wider internal displacement strategy (rather than
  a stand-alone approach)
• Alignment with the Internal displacement
  Strategy Outline of the CSC
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2.2 ECHO Shelter Strategy Haiti (continued)

• Haiti EQ settlement Options (endorsed by CSC)
• Point of Origin (house plot)
• Proximity Location
• Host Household
• Temporarily remaining in collective sites
• Peri-Urban
• Most of ECHO funding allocated to
  implementing partners projects implementing
  settlement options 1, 2 and 3

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2.2 ECHO Shelter Strategy Haiti (continued)

• 1. For immediate results
• Emergency assistance on some of the camps
  (subject to remain for months) to ensure minimum
  living conditions and safety (projects to
  reinforce initial emergency shelters in order to
  provide minimum protection for rainy and
  hurricane season, engineering works to avoid
  floods, facilitate access to water and waste
  removal, ensure security and protection etc..)
• Advocacy to GoH for exceptional measures such as
  reduction of renter deposit, obligation of rubble
  removal and acceptance of T shelters on
  unoccupied plots.
• Advocacy to GoH to free land and allocate plots
  for the creation of permanent camps (in line
  with urban development plans) and with basic
  infrastructures and services. Considerations for
  livelihood potential, protection etc should be
  considered prior to site selections.

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2.2 ECHO Shelter Strategy Haiti (continued)

• 1. For immediate results (continued)

• Assistance to host families outside of PaP.
• Development of small scale T shelter projects
  adapted to ad hoc situations (on sites or on
  cleared plots). Selection of beneficiaries,
  involvement of local authorities and geographical
  location should be the main criteria of
  selection.
• Assistance outside the camps (neighbourhood
  approach) to facilitate returns and avoid new
  movement to the camps.

2. For mid term results

• Advocacy to development donors to invest
  massively in development of housing projects and
  new suburb development (water and electricity
  network extensions, access roads, public services
  in schools and health facilities).

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2.3 Shelter solutions funded by ECHO in Haiti

• As an initial response ECHO provided emergency
  shelter for a wide population trough various
  partners.
• For transitional shelter solutions, the
  current projects have already been funded.
• ACTED (ED) . T shelters (zone II)
• Finish Red Cross (ED) T shelters (zone II)
• UNOPS (ED) 400 T shelter (zone II)
• Architecte de lurgence (AH) 1.000 T shelters
  600 house retrofitting (zone II)
• Oikos (AH) 600 T Shelters and 100 houses (pilot
  demonstration project) (zone II).
• Concern (AH) 500 T shelters provision for
  retrofitting and/or rental allowance (zone I)
• French red Cross (AH) 3.000 T shelter (co
  funding) provision for retrofitting and/or
  rental allowance (zone I)
• Care (AH) 500 kits for retrofitting (plus 20.000
  kits of reinforcement of emergency shelter) (zone
  I and II).

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