Shelter Meeting 10b Feedback Form

Connecting and supporting the humanitarian shelter community responding to settlement and reconstruction needs after conflicts and disasters with resources and training

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Shelter Meeting 10b

This Feedback form is to help us better understand the organisational priorities and requirements.

To make this feedback process quicker for you, we are asking you simple objective type questions. Please use the space at the end of each topic to write down additional information that your agency would like us to include or would not be interested in under those topics. Also you may use that space to give us your opinion and suggestions on each topic.

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1 Objective of the Shelter Meeting

“To strengthen the global and regional capacity of governmental, humanitarian, developmental, community based and private stakeholders through regular, sustainable and consistent training in shelter, settlement, reconstruction and infrastructure, in order to save lives and relieve suffering of populations affected by natural disasters and conflict”

1.1 Suggest changes to the objective:

Topics -Day 1

2.1 ‘Shelter after disaster’ Guidelines

These guidelines are aimed at assisting all stakeholders, including governments, humanitarian and development organisations, in agreeing and implementing together integrated strategies for transitional settlement and reconstruction, in support of the varied needs, resources and capacities of populations affected by natural disasters.

These guidelines are a review of the Field Edition: Transitional settlement and reconstruction after natural disasters, UN/OCHA 2008, and are the result of collaboration between Shelter Centre and UN/OCHA.

2.1.1 Do you find the revision of 'Shelter after disaster' guidelines valuable?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.1.2 Would you like your organisations’ name to be included in the future contributors list?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.2 Sector resource feedback

During the meeting, breakout group discussions led to a list of prioritised needs and gaps in existing support structures with the goal of identifying new inter-sector resources, tools and guidance for the humanitarian community.

2.2.1 What do you consider as the top priorities in implementing capacity building and training?:

2.2.2 What do you consider as the top priorities in implementing knowledge management?:

2.2.3 What do you consider as the top priorities in implementing national regional response level?:

2.2.4 What do you consider as the top priorities in implementing technical tools?:

2.2.5 Do you think there is a need for the development of new resources, tools and guidance to fill gaps in existing support?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.3 Humanitarian Platform on child friendly school construction

HumanitarianSchools.org as a focus for humanitarian organizations is involved in school construction to gain access to the global best practices in order to improve coordination and quality of assistance. The scope would be at a global scale for disaster struck regions and will cover temporary learning centres, transitional and permanent school construction activities.

2.3.1 Do you think such a platform for humanitarian schools is required?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.3.2 Do you think you or your organisation would like to contribute?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.4 Transitional reconstruction guidelines?

The Transitional reconstruction guidelines aim to offer coordinators and specialists a common planning tool which links strategy, programmes, projects and technical information for use in the field, for the implementation of shelter and reconstruction programmes for populations who were not displaced or who have returned.

2.4.1 Do you think that this resource would be useful?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.5 Common humanitarian technical library

The ‘common humanitarian technical library’ aims to provide a platform where inter-agency technical knowledge and information can be shared at a regional and global level. The library will exchange sectoral guidance, regional case studies, and practical standards, as well as knowledge from the field and global experiences contributed to by the regional humanitarian community

2.5.1 Do you feel that this resource may be useful?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.5.2 Do you want to join the working group?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.5.3 Would you or your organisation contribute documents for the library?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.5.4 Additional comments?:

2.6 Shelter community website and library

The website has been completely rebuilt to offer regional support and knowledge management to the sectors. The website will offer greater interactivity, through online discussions; geo-referencing of library contents, events, news and membership.

2.6.1 Are you currently a member on the shelter centre website?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.7 Regional humanitarian technical workshop advisory group

To support the regional humanitarian technical workshops, an advisory group will be formed to oversee the workshop programme and support the accreditation process. The member of the advisory group will nominate people to participate in the workshops, review the workshop programme material and content to ensure that key organisational messages are conveyed.

2.7.1 Would your organisation be interested in joining the regional humanitarian technical workshop advisory group?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.7.2 Do you think your partner organisations would be interested in joining the workshop advisory group?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.9 Urban assistance guidelines

Guidelines entitled “Assistance in urban areas to populations affected by humanitarian crises” will be launched officially at Shelter Meeting 10b. These guidelines assist decision makers in making their main decisions when responding to disasters in urban areas; identifying beneficiaries, agreeing standards and combining methods of assistance. These guidelines are the result of collaboration between the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) and Shelter Centre. The project has been funded by DFID as part of the Shelter Funding initiative.

2.9.1 Do you think there should be another phase of developments to the “Assistance in urban areas to populations affected by humanitarian crises” guidelines?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.9.2 Would you or your organisation be interested in contributing to the development process of ‘Assistance in urban areas to populations affected by humanitarian crises’ guidelines?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.10 Inter-sector breakout groups

The purpose of this breakout group is to discuss and understand the top ten prioritised inter sector needs with respect to camp planning and camp management, early recovery, protection, shelter and WASH.

2.10.1 Do you think there is a need to continue the discussions on emerging needs to support inter-sector collaboration?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.10.2 Would you be willing to participate in future discussion on the development of tools and resources to support inter-sector collaboration?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.11 Transitional shelter guidelines

The objective of this project is to produce a set of practical guidelines for field distribution on the implementation of transitional shelter programmes. These should clearly define transitional shelter, assist the reader in determining whether it is an appropriate response method in a particular scenario, and offer assistance to them on the best way to implement an effective transitional shelter programme.

2.11.1 Do you or your organisation have any case studies or reports which you feel could inform the guidelines? : *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

2.11.2 Would you like to join the working group for this project?: *

Yes

To be decided & keep me informed

3. Biannual Shelter Meeting

3.1 Was the meeting helpful and informative for you and your organisation?: *

Yes

Could not attend

3.2 What should be done to make the future meeting more productive?:

3.3 Please suggest topics for future shelter meetings. :

4. Organisations Support and Participation

4.1 Please choose topics from SM10b that your organisation may want to support through participation or contribution:: *

Shelter after disaster guidelines

Sector resource breakout group

Transitional reconstruction guidelines

Common humanitarian technical library

Regional technical capacity advisory group

Urban guidelines

Inter-sector breakout group

Transitional shelter guidelines

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