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Australian (ACFID) Shelter Reference Group’s Annual Shelter Forum 2013
The first ACFID SRG Shelter Forum was hosted by Habitat for Humanity Australia on Friday 21st June 2013. A pdf report summarizing the forum is available here while the agenda and audio recordings of each of the sessions are below.
Keynote presentation
- Graham Saunders, IFRC: Current trends in shelter programming
Case studies
- Dr Esther Charlesworth and Dr Ifte Ahmed, RMIT University: Scoping study – shelter and disaster risk reduction in the Asia-Pacific Region
- James Schell, HFHA and Dr Ifte Ahmed, RMIT University: Building resilience of urban slum settlements – a multi-sectoral approach to capacity building in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
- Brett Moore, WorldVision: Culture, conflict and climate change: housing, land and property issues in stateless Somalia.
- Rod Johnston, Partner Housing Australia: Resilience of shelter – minimum structural design for cyclonic wind, earthquake and tsunami resistance.
- Kirsten McDonald, Arup: Urban climate change resilience (UCCR)
Breakout sessions
- Tessa Kelly, IFRC: Regulatory barriers to shelter – housing, land and property issues, land use planning and building code enforcement after a disaster.
- Graham Saunders, IFRC: What are the components that make up a resilient built environment?
- Dr Ifte Ahmed, RMIT University: Community engagement driven processes to improve conditions in urban slums.
1. Welcome
2. Opening Remarks
3. Importance of Shelter
4. Importance of Shelter (part 2)
5. Shelter and DRR
6. Regulatory Barriers
7. Community Engagement
8. Built Environment
9. Resilience of Shelter
10. Resilience of Shelter (part 2)
11. Resilience of Shelter (part 3)
12. Conflict and Climate Change
12th UK Shelter Forum
The twelfth UK Shelter Forum was hosted by Habitat for Humanity Great Britain and Oxfam GB on 22.02.13. Minutes from the ‘updates’ part of the agenda are available here. A briefing note summarising the key discussions regarding Housing, Land and Property Rights is available here.
Speakers included:
- Bill Flinn, CENDEP: Building for Safety
- Joseph Ashmore, independent: Shelter Projects 2011 – 2012
- Tom Corsellis, Shelter Centre: Shelter Centre Current Activities
- Vincent Annoni, REACH: Inter Agency Shelter Cluster Assessments
- Jim & Chris Rooney, Hexi-House: Hexi-House – hexagonal inspiration for the world
- Megan Dilloway & Gordon Browne, Solent University: Plastic sheeting – 150gsm vs 170gsm
- Kate Crawford, UCL: Communicating Technical Evidence research project
- Andrew Edwards, ASF-UK: Building knowledge centres
- Jamie Richardson, consultant: Timber Construction Research Project
- Victoria Maynard & Neill Garvie, HFHGB & CA: Improving Shelter Responses to Humanitarian Crises
- Mike Meaney HFHI: HFH Disaster Response Shelter Catalogue
- Theo Schilderman, BSHF: BHSF awards
More detailed discussions followed on specific topics:
- Syria Update via conference call: Syria Shelter Working Group, facilitated by Rick Bauer, Oxfam
- Julien Mulliez, Save the Children: Shelter Solutions for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon
- Ben Nicholson & Brenda Coughlan, DFID: DFID Rapid Response Facility (RRF)
- Victoria Stodart, IFRC: Addressing Regulatory Barriers to the Provision of Emergency and Transitional Shelter after Natural Disasters
In the afternoon participants addressed the forum’s theme of Housing, Land, and Property Rights (HLP). To initiate the debate several speakers gave Pecha Kucha style presentations on different aspects of the topic:
- James Kennedy, independent: Shelter, and Housing, Land and Property rights
- Lisa Stead, HFHGB: Urban land rights in Latin America
- Fiona Kelling: On shaky ground? Tenure security in post-earthquake Haiti
- Rachel Hastie, Oxfam: Protection and Housing, Land, and Property
- Rumana Kabir, independent: The Shelterless Landless
Participants then discussed key questions arising from the presentations in working groups using the Six Thinking Hats Methodology. A summary of key themes arising from the Pecha Kuchas and the breakout groups is available here.
RedR were unable to attend this UK Shelter Forum but they asked forum participants to contribute to the online RedR UK Shelter Sector Learning Needs Assessment.
11th UK Shelter Forum
The eleventh UK Shelter Forum was hosted by Care International on 20.04.12. Topics discussed at this forum included Knowledge management, Accountability, and HLP. Speakers included:
- Tom Corsellis, Shelter Centre: Knowledge and Learning
- Theo Schilderman, Independent: Building for Safety Revision
- Carlo Gherardi, Independent: Shelter Projects 2010 – IFRC, UN-HABITAT, and UNHCR
- Rick Bauer, Oxfam: Housing, Land, and Property Rights
- Hugh Earp, ECB/CARE: Accountability and Shelter
- Gabriel Fernandez Del Pino, CARE: ECB Shelter Training Module
- Yetunde Abdul, Consultant to BRE Global Limited: Sustainability in Fragile Environments Project
- Bo Heiden & Desirée Bartosiak, Qatar Foundation: Qatar Shelter Initiative Study Findings
8th UK Shelter Forum
The eighth UK Shelter Forum was hosted by RedR on 08.10.10. The theme of this forum was Haiti: 9 Months On. Speakers included:
- Neill Garvie, Christian Aid: House building in Haiti
- Ian Pearce, Habitat for Humanity & Victoria Bachelor, Arup: Commercial Partnering to Improve Programme Strategy and Delivery
- Kate Crawford, CARE International: Legal Rights – Housing, Land, Property Rights, and Urbanisation
- Joseph Ashmore, Shelter Project: Market assessment – Plastic sheeting
- Rick Bauer, Oxfam: The impact of the floods on access and availability of bamboo and timber
Group Discussion Topics:
- Chaired by Annie Devonport, DEC: A study on ‘Urban Disaster Response’ as a terms of reference, to include a framework for political/social/economic and technical response.
- Chaired by Kate Crawford, Care International: How do we negotiate doing nothing? How do you find out what you should be doing? What is a good solution?
- Chaired by John Leach, Shelter Box & Toby Gould, RedR: Are there enough shelter managers?