SHELTER MEETING MAY “Timber Guidelines”

SHELTER MEETING MAY Background Millions of cubic meters of timber, costing millions of dollars, are used in relief and reconstruction programmes. However, very little practical advice on timber use and procurement is at present available to the humanitarian community …/…

SHELTER MEETING MAY Background (2) By publishing this Scoping Study, OCHA hopes to achieve a first step towards:  raising the awareness of field, logistics and procurement staff as to basic concepts, sources of info and best practises,  increasing the efficiency of this aspect of relief activity,  increasing the benefit to disaster victims

SHELTER MEETING MAY Background (3) Inter-Agency process:  OCHA  NRC accepted to share its internal guidelines,  Oxfam printed the first set of paper version  IFRC will cooperate for phase II Other interested partners are welcome

SHELTER MEETING MAY Phase I Comments by by end of June 2007 Phase II Draft 2 FINAL International meeting in Autumn (t.b.c.) Scoping Study + Draft 1 2d round of comments

SHELTER MEETING MAY WHAT will the final guidelines cover? Timeliness of importations Environmental considerations Storage considerations Local construction techniques and knowledge Political issues Variability of species and grades

SHELTER MEETING MAY SCOPING STUDY: Very important ! Throughout the Scoping Study, you will encounter boxes with questions, such as this one: Your inputs are essential! To: OR

SHELTER MEETING MAY Dissemination Free download from:  www. humanitariantimber.org or  -> "shelter” Paper copies:  100 copies printed by Oxfam  500 copies printed by OCHA (distributed free-of-charge)

SHELTER MEETING MAY QUESTIONS ? Thank you for your attention and good reading !