1. SHELTER IS NOT A NFI DISTRIBUTION

2. PAKISTAN URBAN SHELTER ISSUES

3. SHELTER IS NOT AN NFI DISTRIBUTION  If I give you a needle, thread and a bolt of cloth, I have not given you a suit; an NFI of shelter materials does not a shelter make.  The minimum for a shelter is: –A design/plan and specification; –A complete material list; and, –The materials on the construction site.

4. ISSUE 1 WE NEED ESTABLISHED DEFINITIONS USED CONSISTANTLY  Language is ambiguous; connotations vary; translations are confusion.  Shelter, emergency shelter, temporary shelter, intermediate shelter, transitional shelter, permanent shelter, housing (add durable shelter): –What are we talking about? –Are there different construction standards for and within each type?  Relief, repair, rebuilding, recovery, reconstruction, rehabilitation, transition, development. Who is on first?

5. CONTINUED  “Transitional Shelter” is: - shelter * * * over the period between a conflict/disaster and achieving a durable shelter solution. Or - shelter which promotes (kick starts) the recovery period. Are these definitions the same?

6. WE NEED SHELTER STANDARD AND BEST PRACTICE PROTOCOLS  What standards do each “class/name” of shelter have to meet? - Should a permanent shelter meet a higher standard that an transitional shelter than an emergency shelter? If so why? What? - Should shelter classes be based on process or product (useable life time, operational phases, quality of construction) or something else?  We need to know what constitutes “providing” a shelter within a shelter program. When can I tick off that I have provided a shelter?  If a class of shelter can only be attained in steps then the shelter program must include all steps from the beginning.

7. ISSUE 2 URBAN SHELTER AND RURAL SHELTER INTERVENTIONS ARE SEPARATE PROGRAMS  Urban shelter interventions require a significant planning structure as both a framework and glue. Planning must look long range. structure as both a framework and glue. Planning must look long range.  Urban shelter programs require more lead time; take longer to complete; phasing and priorities are more critical. longer to complete; phasing and priorities are more critical.  Urban shelter programs can not be delayed while rural shelter programs get going. shelter programs get going.  Population densities, and social and structural interdependence are key factors affecting the urban shelter response.  Urban shelter interventions require more inclusiveness.

8. CONTINUED  Shelter dynamics can not be disconnected from settlement dynamics; transitional cities.  Urban shelter programs cost more money; need an array of funding/assistance strategies.  Urban shelter programs require much more involvement with political, economic and land issues.  Shelter is an evolutionary (not discrete) process that starts with the first tent and must envision the whole housing recovery.  There is no such thing as a temporary shelter (its permanent until the next one comes along).  Shelter is the key reconstruction issue; it is the emotional driver.

9. ISSUE 3 ADDRESSING HOST COUNTRY CAPACITY NEEDS   How do we start when everything appears broken, and within a “zoo” of complex, interrelated and competing circumstances;   How do we quickly build the planning, management and information infrastructures needed to rebuild urban areas;   How do we convert technical/risk information into effective/acceptable public policy;   How do we establish inclusiveness, develop “shared visions” and manage expectation;   How do we avoid the quagmire of “building back better” Public policy development: zoning maps, building codes; turning risk data into public policy; soft goods and hard goods.

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