NRC Shelter Handbook: Implementation through the 18 assistance methods
NRC understands there to be 18 shelter assistance methods that are normally combined to support the affected population, depending upon the nature of the shelter or settlement programme. Most of these are commonly used by NRC shelter programmes while some, such as loans and credit, are generally outside our standard capacity but can be considered, if the context requires.
The 18 assistance methods are summarised below and then elaborated further in this chapter. Case study examples are offered, in order to illustrate how past responses can be understood using the 18 methods. Although the details of how each assistance method is used in each project will vary, the values of using a comprehensive and consistent description include improving communication between stakeholders, as well as making more visible lessons learnt from previous projects.
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Published 2010
Publisher(s): The Cash Learning Partnership (CaLP)
Location: Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Internal displacement to urban areas: the Tufts - IDMC profiling study - Case 2: Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire
Published 2008
Publisher(s): Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Feinstein International Center, Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Tufts University
Location: Ivory Coast
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Location: World
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NRC Shelter Handbook: Cross-cutting issues
NRC operates in complex, violent and often marginal environments and it generates different needs and risks for different groups or individuals. In order to ensure high quality relevant programming NRC will always assess the crosscutting issues and incorporate a programmatic response where required.
Being considered as a whole, crosscutting issues provide a series of important points to stakeholders to deal with programmatic response. In parallel, programmatic response needs to present a real understanding of the situation by identifying and addressing the key issues in an integrated manner and communicating continually with other sectors.
NRC Shelter Handbook: Settlement and shelter support
In this Handbook, the word ‘settlement’ is used with two meanings. The first meaning is places where people live, the community’s area. The second meaning is how the affected population settles after a natural disaster, armed conflict or complex emergency. This second meaning of the word settlement is used in the 6+6 settlement options section.
Shelter solutions that the affected populations are provided with will meet their basic needs if their settlements have the capacity to ensure the well-functioning of these shelter solutions in terms of infrastructure, resilience and governance.
NRC Shelter Handbook: Shelter support
NRC shelter programmes include non-physical and physical construction shelter support. Non-physical shelter support describes rental and host families support. Physical construction shelter support refers to the four options for building back better, which are retrofit, repair, rebuild and relocate, as well as to maintenance, tents and transitional shelter.