1. Technical Coordination Tools and Guidance
Shelter Cluster Philippines

2. Context
Technical team developed several guiding documents to provide programmatic and technical support to agencies.
The Recovery Guidelines and Build Back Safer tools were developed from the beginning of the recovery phase (Feb-March).
These were an update of the initial existing guidelines which mainly focused on the emergency shelter assistance.
The process of developing these tools were facilitated by consultative and iterative process with agencies and government, promoting minimum standards on safe, adequate and appropriate shelter.
These tools became the baseline for future recommendations and capacity building, enabling a harmonisation of the shelter response, promoting equity among shelter implementing agencies.

3. Documents
Index Document – with links to all documents produced by the Technical team, this included:
Recovery Shelter Guidelines
Recovery Shelter Options
8 Build Back Safer Key Messages
Beneficiary prioritization tools
HLP documents
Material sheets (ongoing)
FAQs (ongoing)

8. Advantages
Developed a check list and recommendation document based on the guiding documents based on programmatic and technical construction issues.
This allowed us to leverage in providing guidance and recommendations to agencies during Technical Clinics
Cycle of technical guidance

9. Challenges Time consuming process
Impact on the IM system and reporting
Recovery phase “vs” Early recovery
Bye-in and interpretation from shelter agencies
Ongoing dissemination

10. Ways forward
Discussion with Regional Focal Points to retain the information in country as editable versions
Discussion at the GSC Meeting on clarifying good practice for the production, dissemination of these materials
Make better use of guidelines and tools being produced by SC Partners rather than the Cluster producing these materials.