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Shelter response options

Implementing various shelter assistance initiatives like emergency shelter, kits, grants, and core houses for families affected by disasters. Utilize community participation and tools to ensure adequate housing. Promote durable and culturally fitting construction methods. Must focus on training, materials, and advocacy for sustainable shelter solutions.

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Shelter response options

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  1. Shelter response options • Emergency Shelter • Shelter assistance kits • Shelter grants • Core Houses )T-Shelter • Evacuation camp assistance • Permanent Housing assistance

  2. Emergency Shelter • Are all families currently adequately sheltered??? • No clear data • Lingering serious concern • Role for tarps? • Urgently requires survey

  3. Shelter assistance kits • For self help and host communities • 4 key components • Tools • Hammer, shovel, saw, • Materials • 20m2 roofing & nails, tie down materials, bamboo, coco timber, walling • Training • Basic principles, tie down and bracing • Community assistance program • Utilize community mechanisms to assist MV • Note: Requires additional community participation in design of implementation methodology, tool and material selection

  4. Shelter assistance grants • Direct grants per family • Families formed into small community groups • Provision of Clear guidelines • Shelter related expenses only • No labour • Selection process • Accounting • Mon and eval • Provision of Plans and specification • Allow variation • Training • May include provision of materials that are • Hard to procure regionally • Culturally unusual but structurally important

  5. Core Houses • Recommendation • Bamboo, rope tied or • Coco lumber bolted construction • Nipa roof, 25 degree pitch • 20m2, 50cm overhang • Tied down to concrete footings • Raised dirt (lahah, or brick rubble) floor • Woven bamboo walls • Training and Tools • Aprox cost US$250-350

  6. Specific Core house recommendations • CGI as part of assistance kits only • Two options for wall framing • 2)Bamboo construction • Posts from Marogui, beams from Kawayan • Joints pegged and tied with rattan or coconut fibre rope, no nails • 1) Post and beam construction using Coco wood • Work with local businesses to harvest damaged coconut trees

  7. Example education material

  8. Example Bamboo Core House

  9. Transitional Evacuation camp assistance • Advocacy • Ensure sphere and other standards are met • Construction • Assist in the construction ? • Base construction on T-Shelter model?

  10. Permanent relocated housing assistance • Recommend that this is not seen as a current cluster priority • Ongoing advocacy to ensure minimum standards are met • Option to supply Core House solutions

  11. Conclusions Program should be based on: • Typhoon proof frame construction • Tie down and bracing • Light weight wall and roof cladding • Coconut, bamboo and Nipa • Implementation through • Self help shelter assistance grants or kits • Implemented through BAYANIHAN? • Transitional shelter program • Programs should also include • Training • Tool kits Additional actions required • Recheck Tarp need • Strong Advocacy role in cluster and camps

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