The guidelines 'Shelter after disaster: strategies for transitional settlement and reconstruction' were launched at SM10b by UN/OCHA and Shelter Centre.
The guidelines are the revision of the key publication Shelter After Disaster: Guidelines for Assistance, published in 1982 by the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief (now United Nations / Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs).
The guidelines offer governments, coordinators and implementers a framework for integrated shelter, settlement and reconstruction following natural disasters.