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Graham Saunders from IFRC outlined the challenge facing the humanitarian shelter sector with regard to the increase of disasters due to climate change. Eight main challenges facing the sector...
Graham Saunders, Head of the Shelter Department at the IFRC, addressed causes and consequences of climate change and linked this to the reality in the field.
This presentation focused primarily on the revision of the Sphere Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in disaster response. Graham Saunders proceeded by providing the audience with the key...
Graham Saundes presented the overall goal of the cluster approach, Global Shelter Cluster activities from 2009 onwards and its deliverables to date at global level. On a country level he spoke...
Mrs. Ela Serdaroglu presented the recent IFRC Publication "Transitional shelters - 8 designs".
The definition for transitional...
Mrs. Sandra D'Urzo from IFRC presented PASSA (Participatory Approach for Safe Shelter Awareness) .
This publication introduces an 8 step tool that enables communities to understand and...
Alfonso Calzadilla from the IFRC gave a presentation on the evaluation of the 2010 earthquake response in Haiti.
The evaluation...
The Shelter Research Unit is the back office research to support field practitioners with a final aim of finding better construction materials and new technical solutions.
Sandra D’Urzo from IFRC and Claudia Schneider from SKAT presented "Sustainable Reconstruction in Urban...