UK Shelter Forum 19 took place on the 11th November 2016 co-hosted by Habitat for Humanity and CRS. The theme of the forum was

Co-ordination is vital in emergencies, and integrated approaches between sectors is essential. Engaging with practitioners and academicians from other sectors enabled Shelter practitioners appreciate how to holistically approach shelter programs.

Other sectors represented at the forum included health, livelihoods (cash based approaches), WASH, urban displacement, infrastructure, environment and protection including an interesting discussion on hardware, software and fluff-ware. By understanding their approaches, and by providing an opportunity to gauge their impact on shelter programs, the forum hoped to explore and learn how shelter sector can effectively work and collaborate with the other sectors, and understand broader impacts of meeting shelter needs.

The day proved to be informative and engaging with enthusiastic participation from all participants. The forum concluded with drinks and launch of ‘Good Programming Guidelines’ produced by the  CARE International UK Shelter Team with support from the InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG). Presentations from UKSF 19 are below:

EEFIT-funded project ‘Measuring recovery – signposts to good practice’ by John Twigg (ODI) & Laura Howlett

Humanitarian Capacity Development in Urban Emergencies: A brief overview of who is doing what in humanitarian capacity development for urban emergencies by Harriette Purchas (RedR)

Shelter Meetings 2016-2017 by Tom Corsellis (Shelter Centre)

Infrastructure – a cross cutting or unifying theme? by Steven Crosskey (UNOPS)

Lessons learned in Shelter and HLP projects by Mike Waugh (NRC)

Shelter Projects (Part 1, Part 2) by Joseph Ashmore (IOM)

Address the Gaps in Post-disaster Rental Support Programs in Beirut and Port-au-Prince by Alex Miller

Urban planning after humanitarian crises: supporting local governments to take the lead by Victoria Maynard, et al.

(Re)settlement Toolkit by Siddharth Nadkarny & Hayley Gryc (ARUP)

PHASE 2 Shelter – German Red Cross´ contribution to a safer and healthier living environment and to an improved resilience of the people affected by Typhoon Haiyan in Leyte Province, Philippines by Daniel Becker (German Red Cross)

Building safety in self recovery: a review of current knowledge by Charles Parrack (CENDEP)

Launch Details by UK Built Environment Advisory Group

Hardware, software to fluff-ware: Integrating fluff-ware into sheltering programs by Seki Hirano (CRS)

Integration story from Iraq with the Food cluster to develop a multi-sector mobilisation and response-tracking tool for displacement by Jamie Richardson (CRS)

Short history of the British Red Cross integrated urban programme in Haiti – Delmas 19 integrated urban recovery programme by Melvin Tebbutt

Environment in settlements approaches: from cross cutting issue to programme fundamental Global Shelter Cluster Environment Community of Practice by Charles Parrack (CENDEP)

Challenging shelter standards / Designing Sites for Safety Jessica Izquierdo (IOM)