1. CARE in Emergency Shelter and Reconstruction

2. 1. What is Our commitment to Shelter? 2. What impact does Shelter have? 3. What are the programming options in shelter? 4. What is Global Shelter Sector like? 5. Who is the Emergency Shelter Cluster? 6. Where is CARE working in Shelter? 7. What’s CARE doing in Shelter FY10? CARE in Shelter

3. What is Our Commitment to Shelter? In 2006 CARE made the strategic decision to develop specialized capacity in the focus area of Shelter. CARE UK hosts this capacity The purpose of developing this capacity is to enable CARE to maintain leading edge performance in emergencies.

4. What impact does Shelter have? Shelter sector decisions impact other sectors and cross-cutting issues: protection and security water and sanitation access health avoiding exposure, ensuring sanitation nutrition particularly calorific intake in cold climates logistics key to any NFI or construction projects psychosocial and social needs such as privacy and dignity livelihoods accommodation of activities or paid construction natural-resource management and environmental impacts

5. What are the programming options in shelter?

6. Families on their own land will have one of the six types of occupancy: House tenant Apartment tenant Land tenant Apartment owner-occupier House owner-occupier Occupancy with no legal status based on content developed by

7. Displaced populations will have chosen one of the six transitional settlement options: Host families Urban self-settlement Rural self-settlement Collective centres Self-settled camps Planned camps based on content developed by

8. Household non-food items (NFIs)- cooking sets, blankets, etc. Shelter non-food items (NFIs)- construction timber, tools, etc. Transitional shelter- habitable, covered, healthy, secure, private living space achievement of a durable shelter solution Community labour- for simple design projects and traditions of self-building Contracted labour- for large or complex projects, infrastructure Direct labour- for small projects and rapid response Cash- dispersed directly to beneficiaries in phases Vouchers- an alternative to cash for materials or services Loans and guarantees- when there is stable access to supplies and repayment is feasible Local information centres- for info throughout the response Capacity building- integrates training Technical expertise- to support all assistance methods 12 common assistance methods based on content developed by

9. These assistance methods are not alternatives, but are combined in order to create appropriate packages, depending on the combination of transitional settlement options supported Home owner- occupier StormStorm damage Host family Assistance methods Information centre Cash Household NFIs Natural disaster example: Combining assistance methods based on content developed by

10. What is the Global Shelter Sector like? Small but growing since the Tsunami Broad remit crossing agency mandates Policy in early stages Varied funding sources

11. Who is the Emergency Shelter Cluster? At the global level, the Emergency Shelter Cluster is co-chaired by UNHCR and IFRC: UNHCR leads for refugee and conflict IDPs IFRC is convener in natural disasters Members/main partners at the global level: Care International, CHF, DRC, IOM, Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, RedR, Shelter Centre, UNDP, UN- HABITAT, UNICEF, UN/OCHA and WFP. When the ESC is activated, three personnel are sent: Cluster coordinator - assigned by the cluster lead agency to coordinate the cluster/sector in the emergency Technical specialist - supports the cluster coordinator and cluster as a whole and ensures that sound technical advise is adhered to in the operation Information manager – manages the collection, analysis, and dissemination of data in support of the cluster Find out more: www.humanitarianreform.org

12. Where are we working in Shelter? Banglades h Pakistan Madagasca r Indonesia Mozambiqu e Peru Yemen DRC

13. 1. Mapping our shelter activities 2. Creating a community of practice 3. Revising the CET Shelter and Camps Chapter What’s CARE doing in Shelter FY10?

14. Bibliography ‘Transitional Settlement: Displaced Populations’ (Corsellis and Vitale, 2005) ‘Transitional settlement and reconstruction after natural disasters' (United Nations, 2008) ‘Handbook for Emergencies’ (UNHCR, 2007) ‘Handbook for the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons’ (Global Protection Cluster Working Group, 2007) All available and more at www.shelterlibrary.org