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Shelter Meeting 09b is hosted by UNHCR
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: Rebuilding After Disaster
Update of
“Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: Rebuilding After Disaster”
A handbook to be published by the World Bank
Presented by Shelter Centre on behalf of the World Bank
Shelter Meeting 09b is hosted by UNHCR
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: Rebuilding After Disaster
Content
Part 1 Reconstruction tasks and how to undertake them
Section 1 Assessing damage and defining reconstruction policy
Section 2 Planning Reconstruction
Section 3 Project Implementation
Part 2 Monitoring and information management
Part 3 Information on world bank policies and projects
Part 4 Technical resources
No. Pages:Equivalent to 150 A4
No. Pages:346 A4
Shelter Meeting 09b is hosted by UNHCR
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: Rebuilding After Disaster
Topics emphasised, forming the core of the handbook:
•reconstruction approaches; and
•non-displaced populations.
Topics mentioned, but not discussed in detail:
•tenants;
•multi storey dwellings; and
•displaced populations.
Scope
Shelter Meeting 09b is hosted by UNHCR
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: Rebuilding After Disaster
There is agreement and a consistent approach between:
•the revised draft of the World Bank handbook ‘Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: Rebuilding After Disaster’; and
•UN/OCHA ‘Transitional settlement and reconstruction after natural disasters – field edition’.
Both handbooks are being developed in parallel with strong communication.
Consistency
Shelter Meeting 09b is hosted by UNHCR
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: Rebuilding After Disaster
PrinciplesThe guiding principles, as agreed in Shelter Meeting 09a, are consistent in both handbooks.
Shelter Meeting 09b is hosted by UNHCR
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: Rebuilding After Disaster
Terminology
Non-displaced populations: transitional reconstruction 6 options
Displaced populations: transitional settlement 6 options
The categories used to describe displaced and non-displaced populations is consistent in both handbooks.
Shelter Meeting 09b is hosted by UNHCR
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: Rebuilding After Disaster
Activity TimelineThe sequence of major events that occur in a disaster response are consistent in both handbooks.
Shelter Meeting 09b is hosted by UNHCR
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: Rebuilding After Disaster
Agreeing strategy
Policy and strategies must be developed inline and in cooperation with national governments.
By providing consistent guidelines, the humanitarian and development communities can offer consistent guidance to government.
Shelter Meeting 09b is hosted by UNHCR
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: Rebuilding After Disaster
Approaches
• Transitional Shelter: Support households through to the availability of a permanent shelter solution.
• Cash Approach: Financial support without technical support.
• Owner-Driven Reconstruction: Conditional financial assistance.
• Community-Driven Reconstruction: Financial and/or material assistance is channeled through community organizations.
• Agency-Driven Reconstruction in-situ: Houses replaced in their predisaster location.
• Agency-Driven Reconstruction in Relocated Site: Houses are replaced in a new site.
• People-Centred Integrated Reconstruction: Keeping the affected population at the center of the reconstruction process.
The World Bank handbook discusses the following approaches:
These activities are covered in the UN/OCHA guidelines, however, are not discussed under these headings.
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Shelter Meeting 09b is hosted by UNHCR
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: Rebuilding After Disaster
Any questions?
Abhas K. Jha,Lead Urban Specialist and Regional Coordinator, Disaster Risk Management, East Asia and the Pacific, The World Bank,1818 H Street NW, Washington DC 20433, USA.Tel: +1-202-458-1050 Fax: +1-202-614-4213Email: [email protected]/disasters
Safer Homes, Stronger Communities: Rebuilding After Disasteris available on-line during December 2009 at:
http://www.housingreconstruction.org