The 15th UK Shelter Forum was hosted by CARE and Arup on Monday 24th November 2014. You can download the agenda here and the briefing note for day 1 here. The briefing from day 2 will be posted shortly.
Topics covered in this forum include
- Updates from shelter actors around the world,
- Philippines Haiyan response one year on,
- South Asia Floods
- Forgotten African crises
- Accelerating housing recovery
- Future research needs: ‘what don’t we know..’.
The Forum closed with the launch of the new book ‘Still Standing? Looking back at reconstruction and disaster risk reduction in housing’ from the Building and Social Housing Foundation (BSHF), followed by drinks kindly provided by BSHF.
An additional session for presentations and discussion on the Syria and Gaza crises was organised on Tuesday the 25th.