Shelter Meeting 08a
This meeting was hosted by UN/OCHA.
The agenda for days 1 and 2 of Shelter Meeting 08a presented below links to pages summarising each presentation, usually also including for download a copy of the PowerPoint used.
The participants and observers of SM08a are listed at the bottom of this page.
Day 1, Shelter Meeting 08a, Thursday 15th May 2008 (back to top)
09:00 - 09:30 | arrival and coffee |
09:30 - 09:45 | Welcome, agenda and housekeeping |
09:45 - 10:00 | Keynote speech, speaker Sharon Rusu, UN/OCHA |
10:00 - 10:30 | Launch of "Transitional settlement and Reconstruction after Natural Disasters" , Shelter Centre and UN/OCHA |
10:30 - 11:00 | Addressing land issues after natural disasters, Esteban León, UN-Habitat |
11:00 - 11:30 |
coffee |
11:30 - 12:00 | Yogyakarta transitional shelter, Jeffery Dougherty, CHF |
12:00 - 12:30 | Impact of Heavy Weaponry on Buildings, Issam Mahmoud Miqdadi, UNRWA |
12:30 - 13:00 |
Introduction to the 3 afternoon breakout groups: 1. Operational checklists, Heiner Gloor and Tom Schacher, Swiss Solidarity 2. Climate change and shelter, David Stone, ProAct and Magnus Wolfe Murray, RESET 3. Shelter and settlement cases studies and transitional shelter guidelines, UN-Habitat |
13:00 - 14:00 |
lunch |
14:00 - 15:00 | 3 parallel breakout groups |
15:00 - 15:45 | Feedback of actions to the plenary of the 4 breakout groups |
15:45 - 16:15 |
coffee |
16:15 - 16:45 | Humanitarian timber - project update, UN/OCHA, IFRC, and CARE International |
16:45 - 17:30 | Update on the innovative Sheltering initiative, Felix de Vries, Netherlands Red Cross |
17:30 |
close |
Day 2, Shelter Meeting 08a, Friday 16th May 2008 (back to top)
09:00 - 09:20 | arrival and coffee |
09:20 - 09:30 | Welcome, agenda and housekeeping |
09:30 - 10:00 | Inter-agency Camp Management Toolkit, Veit Vogel, NRC/Camp Management |
10:00 - 10:45 | Shelter Training, Shelter Library and Shelter Community, Shelter Centre, ProACt and CARE |
10:45 - 11:00 | Shelter Meeting 08b: agree dates, agenda and format |
11:00 - 11:30 |
coffee |
11:30 - 12:00 | Applications for insurance in building back safer, Ian O'Donnell, ProVention Consortium |
12:00 - 12:30 | Satellite imagery and GIS - practical tools for the Emergency shelter Cluster, Einar Bjorgo, UNITAR-UOSAT |
12:30 - 13:00 |
Introduction to the 4 afternoon breakout groups: 1. Guidelines on asbestos removal and guidelines on re-use of construction material post disaster, ProAct 2. Review of funding mechanisms for transitional shelter, (application for Shelter Funding), CARE International 3. ESC NFI Standards project, Shelter Centre, CARE, NRC, UNHCR, IFRC & UN/OCHA 4. Proposed projects with academic institutions, A4A, EWB and RESET |
13:00 - 14:00 |
lunch |
14:00 - 15:00 | 4 parallel breakout groups |
15:00 - 15:45 | Feedback to the plenary of the 4 breakout groups |
15:45 - 16:15 |
coffee |
16:15 - 17:30 | Operational shelter capacity scoping study, Mohammed Ali and Linda Richardson, RedR |
17:30 | close |
Participants of Shelter Meeting 08a, 15th-16th May 2008 (back to top)
Robin Cross | Architects for Aid |
Victoria Harris | Architects for Aid |
Elisabeth Babister | CARE International |
Rumana Kabir | CARE International |
Jeffrey Dougherty | CHF International |
Marriane Lambert | European Commission |
Sok-Ngim Ly | European Commission |
Nigel Vaz | EWB |
Thomas Whitworth | EWB |
Mary Faherty | GOAL |
Mike Meaney | Habitat for Humanity International |
Malcolm Johnstone | IFRC |
Valle Galan | IFRC |
Jérôme Michon | Médecins sans Frontières - Belgium |
Barend Leeuwenberg | Médecins sans Frontières - Holland |
Felix de Vries | Netherlands Red Cross |
Jake Zarins | Norwegian Refugee Council |
Jim Kennedy | Norwegian Refugee Council |
Øyvind Nordlie | Norwegian Refugee Council |
Veit Vogel | Norwegian Refugee Council |
Laurence Hamai | Oxfam GB |
Paul Neale | Oxfam |
Michal Lyons | Practical Action |
Theo Schilderman | Practical Action |
David Stone | ProAct Network |
Karen Walker | ProAct Network |
Ian O'Donnell | ProVention Consortium |
Linda Richardson | RedR |
Mohammed Ali | RedR |
Magnus Wolfe Murray | RESET |
Sarah Kent | RESET |
Heinrich Gloor | SDC/HA |
Tom Schacher | Swiss Solidarity |
Isabelle de Muyser-Boucher | UN/OCHA |
Sharon Rusu | UN/OCHA |
Florence Secula | UN/OCHA |
Debora Neumann | UN-Habitat |
Esteban León | UN-Habitat |
Gilian Kular | UN-Habitat |
Adelmo Risi | UNHCR |
Angele Dikongue | UNHCR |
Shelly Gornall | UNHCR |
Yoichiro Tsuchida | UNHCR |
Rod Imer | World Vision International |
Observers of Shelter Meeting 08a, 15th-16th May 2008 (back to top)
Alexandre Koclejda | Architectes de l'Urgence |
Melvin Tebbutt | British Red Cross |
Sanna Karhumaki | FinnChurchAid |
John Howard | Independent |
Joseph Ashmore | Independent |
Mathew Slater | Independent |
Tim Foster | Independent |
Yasemin Aysan | Independent |
Bing Li | Lien Institute For Enviroment (LIFE) |
David Sacca | Première Urgence |
Carolyn Hayles | Queen's University of Belfast |
Jason Von Meding | Queen's University of Belfast |
Douglas Murray Jones | RICS |
Gordon Browne | Southampton Solent University |
Einar Bjorgo | UNOSAT |
Elena Mancusi Materi | UNRWA |
Issam Mahmoud Miqdadi | UNRWA |
Matthias Burchard | UNRWA |
Salah Abdel-Latif Ismail | UNRWA |