1. Increasing HLP capacity in the shelter sector Neil Brighton Global Manager Shelter and Settlements, NRC Leeanne Marshall Shelter Advisor, Australian Red Cross

2. Increasing HLP capacity in the shelter sector
Recognizing the importance of HLP in shelter
GSC Due Diligence guidelines in 2013
ECHO Shelter and settlement guidelines
Inclusion of Security of Tenure in Sphere revision
HLP in GSC Strategy for
Ongoing support for guidance and training
STSO guidelines and training materials
HLP mapping and preparedness workshops
Dedicated capacity –new GSC Roving HLP Advisor, Ibere Lopes (hosted by IOM, funded by NRC/ECHO) – South Sudan, Nigeria, DRC, Vanuatu

3. Security of Tenure in the Sphere Handbook

4. Sphere: quick overview…
“People can live in their homes without fear of forced eviction” – RtAH
It’s about security of tenure, not ownership
What is “secure enough” for the purposes of designing shelter options
Incremental– or step by step – approach by using due diligence
NRC is keen to support agencies in operationalizing the new standard

5. Securing Tenure in Shelter Operations training materials

6. STSO: mapping the context
Mapping the arrangements and identifying gaps
Mapping is undertaken for a specific context
Shelter and ICLA colleagues undertake the exercise together, also undertake for WG or Cluster
Can lead to ‘software’ (e.g. MPC) responses in addition to ‘hardware’
Legal contract
Occupancy agreement
Community meeting
MoU
Handshake
Verbal permission
Municipal agreement
Ownership deed
Enumeration
MORE secure
LESS secure
LESS efficient
MORE efficient
Women’s HLP and inheritance
Populations at risk of eviction given settlement type and arrangement

7. STSO: incremental approach
The case of CAR…
How many instruments could be adapted?
Legal contract
Occupancy agreement
Community meeting
MoU
Handshake
Verbal permission
Municipal agreement
Ownership deed
Enumeration
MORE secure
LESS secure
LESS efficient
MORE efficient

8. Securing tenure in urban areas

9. HLP preparedness: country mapping

10. HLP preparedness: country level mapping
Country level mapping of Housing, Land and Property laws (both statutory and customary)
Intention to inform both programming and emergency responses + advocacy tool with Governments and others to highlight areas of inequity
Completed research memos and fact sheets: Cook Islands, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Tonga, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Mongolia, Philippines, Papua New Guinea (to be completed Timor Leste, Nepal)
Private sector partnership with in country support and advice.

11. HLP preparedness: mapping next steps
Country level preparedness workshops (working with local governments/organisations including development actors) to identify potential issues and ways to practically include in contingency planning and country level strategies
HLP training module (including simulations)
Sharing of information (now available on GSC website
Use as a starting point for assessments/ analysis in post crisis
Opportunity for advocacy and awareness raising at multiple levels in peacetime (working with National/ Local governments and communities)

12. Next steps… Sphere launch Awareness raising
Trainings and webinars (TBC)
Putting guidelines and profiles into practice
NRC STSO trainings for operational partners
GSC Roving HLP Advisor country support
HLP preparedness workshops
eLearning resources
Increased capacity and coordination in 2019