EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This year Asia Pacific Shelter Forum was held in Lombok Indonesia on August 2019 combined with National Shelter Conference hosted by the Ministry of Social Affairs with coordination support from IFRC. The forum brings together shelter practitioners from, and/or working in the region to share ideas and lessons learned on humanitarian shelter and settlement initiatives and programs which aims to build stronger community of shelter practice across the region.

Included in the event is a full day field visit to earthquake affected areas in Lombok to observe and discuss progress and challenges in post-disaster recovery and reconstruction in urban areas.

Attended by approximately 140 participants from the region, and 13 out of 140 participants are CRS and Caritas representative. Nine (9) CRS staff from 5 Country Programs such as Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal and Philippines; two (2) staff from Caritas Bangladesh and two (2) S&S HRD staff had participated the forum. All CRS and Caritas staff presented at different sessions bringing a lot of credit to CRS.

The forum allowed time for discussions on six (6) thematic sessions such as:

1. Flexible cash in shelter programming
2. Improving response when we have low sector capacity
3. On-going challenge of transitioning from emergency to permanent
4. Localization and nationalization of shelter response
5. Addressing house and land, security and tenure, and
6. Retrofitting bracing and physically reducing risk

An “open space” was also allocated for participants to nominate topics of interest followed by vibrant discussions and debate about the selected topics.

After the event, CRS and Caritas staff had debrief and reflect; each one sharing their observations, learning experience and takeaways from the forum.

CLICK ON THE LINK FOR FULL REPORT: https://bit.ly/2Ysq9zO

The Asia Pacific Shelter Week was composed of four primary events, namely, the inaugural National Indonesian Shelter and Settlements Workshop from 19 – 20 August, the Global Shelter Cluster – Asia Pacific Shelter Meeting on 21 August, followed by the annual Asia Pacific Shelter Practitioners Forum on 22 August, and completed with a field visit to disaster affected areas of Lombok on the 23 August.

In late August of 2019, the second Asia Pacific Regional Shelter workshops and forum, this year called “Shelter Week” was hosted in Lombok by Indonesia’s Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos) as lead of the National Protection and Displacement Cluster under which the Shelter Sub-Cluster sits, with support from IFRC as lead of the Global Shelter Cluster in Natural disasters, and the Asia Pacific Shelter Forum.

The Shelter Week events were held at the Hotel Lombok Raya in Lombok’s capital city of Mataram (Kota Mataram) on the Indonesian island of Lombok, in the Province of West Nusa Tenggara of which Mataram is the provincial capital. On behalf of the Indonesian Ministry of Social Affairs, the Global Shelter Cluster and the Asia Pacific Shelter Forum members, we thank all participants, facilitators and organisers who took part in this years’ Indonesian Shelter Week.

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS QUICK UPDATE REPORT: https://bit.ly/3DfYhxD

CLICK HERE TO ACCESS WELCOME PACK: https://bit.ly/2Ylv9q1

The Asia Shelter Forum is an informal forum for exchange of ideas and lessons learned for humanitarian shelter & settlement practitioners in Asia and Pacific. The Forum is established with the objective of coordination, collaboration, learning and sharing of the experiences on the shelter sectors and to inform, provide updates on various ongoing initiatives on shelter interventions in areas of disaster response, recovery, and preparedness to address particularly identified needs based on successes and lessons during implementation in the field.

In the previous Second Asia Shelter Forum that was held in Indonesia, the half day virtual workshop drew the attention of Government, international practitioners and donor agencies on the lessons and experience of recent disasters as well as the wider experience of shelter response in the region. The workshop was able to explore the best practices in achieving safe, adequate, dignified implementation of shelter programs that supports community engagement, community driven shelter initiatives and also for bringing global participants in an Asia Shelter Forum in April 2021.

The third Asia Shelter Forum was hosted by Nepal and was led by the HRRP for coordination with higher level officials and executives of Government of Nepal, delegates of international countries, authorities of multilateral, and bi-lateral donors, and the representatives of different I/NGOs within and outside the country.