The need for appropriate and cost efficient shelter for refugees and displaced persons has grown considerably in importance in the last decade. The magnitude and complexity of conflicts has placed humanitarian organisations into an exhaustive race in time and circumstance. This sequence of refugee events has so far prevented an in-depth analysis of appropriate responses. For these reasons, the Programme and Technical Support Section of the UNHCR has taken the initiative, together with its partners, to search urgently for improvements in response to refugee shelter needs, What is needed is a comprehensive shelter strategy with appropriately developed standards, supply methods, specifications and production capacities related to local needs and circumstances. The working group convened by UNHCR in Geneva on February 16th, 1993, agreed on an international workshop as the appropriate forum for attacking these issues. Below are two files: - the first is the complete response to the workshop including the programme overview, workshop notes and speeches - the second is a summary of the workshop