Shelter Forum

The shelter forum is a community of practice for individuals and organisations involved in shelter and settlement reconstruction activities.

30th UK Shelter Forum

Posted on April 4, 2024 by UK Shelter Forum 21 Team

The 30th UK Shelter Forum will be convened by the Recovery Community of Practice and jointly hosted by ARUP and RedR UK.

Theme: The challenge of scale in an environment of increasing need and decreasing resources.

Date: Tuesday 14th May 2024, 9:00am – 17:00 BST

Location: ARUP office (and online) ARUP, 8 Fitzroy Street, London W1T 4BJ

Submit a presentation proposal: If you’d like to contribute to the UK Shelter Forum please click here to tell us about your proposal as soon as possible. Deadline 22 April 2024

Register for the event: Book your tickets for the forum here. Please select either the in-person or online option when prompted.

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Save the Date – UK Shelter forum 30 – 14th May 2024

Posted on March 6, 2024 by UK Shelter Forum 21 Team

UK Shelter Forum 29 presentations

Posted on February 7, 2024 by UK Shelter Forum 21 Team

In preparation of this years UK Shelter Forum, below are the presentations from UKSF 2023. This event was held at the Institution of Structural Engineers on Friday 12th May 2023, convened by CRS, CENDEP and Buro Happold.

Download the notes from the event here

Presentations

Shelter, housing and Home-Based Work – Victoria Maynard
A new web platform of Digital Tools for Disaster Resilience for humanitarian stakeholders – Fulvio D. Lopane et al.
Post-Conflict Engineering – Local Information Management Officers – Tom Corsellis
Rapid and effective actions in times of disaster – Miyamoto
Structural performance standards in the Shelter Sector – How do we select an appropriate structural standard for shelters? – Seb Kaminski + Tom Newby
Flood Resilient Shelters in South Sudan – Markus Zorn
Enhancing earthquake resistance through masons, policies and digital tools – Tanzania – Guilia Jole Sechi et al.
A Political Earthquake: The impact of post-earthquake reconstruction on Nepali politics – James Shamrock
Measuring Change in People’s Lives – Melvin Tebbutt
Homes & Communities Scaling – CRS
Behavioral insights to evaluate humanitarian shelter and settlement recovery practice – Eefje Hendricks and Andrew Powell
Earthquake impacts in North West Syria – Charles Parrack