This report discusses the experiences of its member agencies on family shelter reconstruction programmes post Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh. It aims to record what was implemented and to provide a learning platform for future family shelter responses. The focus was to study the family shelters built within the last two years after cyclone Sidr. These shelters are termed as Core Family Shelters or Transitional Shelters. This research looked into three themes, Disaster Risk Reduction, Structural Soundness and Cultural Acceptance. The overall shelter programme documentation has been divided into the sequence of ‘The Process’ describing the programme objective, implementation, handover, monitoring and risk reduction strategy; ‘The Product’ describing the shelter design options, cost, quality, hazard resilience and user’s responses. The case histories illustrate both good and bad practices to ensure that future shelter responses are better than what has been done so far.