Contacts ■ Jaffna Shelter
Jaffna ■ Killinochchi Coordination Cell UNHCR Field Office Emergency ■ Mullaitivu Tel: 021 222 2005(9826) Shelter Actors Killinochchi / Mullaithivu in Sri Lanka ■ Vavuniya UNHCR Field Office ■ Mannar Tel: 021 2285764 CARE EHED ■Trincomalee UNOPS Field Office Forut Tel: 021 2285729 ■ Anuradhapura Hudec / Caritas Mannar ICRC 2007 UNHCR Field Office IOM Tel: 023 222 2380 ■ Puttalam JRS JSAC Mid-Year Solidar Field Office ■ Batticaloa NRC Tel: 024 4920799 Oxfam Vavuniya, Puttalam & Sewa Lanka Update Anuradhapura Solidar UNHCR ■ Ampara SPI Vavuniya Sub Office UNHCR Tel: 024 222 2550(1509) UNOPS ■ Colombo WVI Solidar Field Office Tel: 024 4920799 ZOA
Trincomalee UNHCR Sub Office Tel: 026 222 4027(1845)
NRC Field Office Tel: 026 222 3977/78/80
Batticaloa / Ampara Colombo UNHCR Field Office UNHCR Colombo UNOPS Tel: 065 222 2979(6968) Tel : 011 268 3968 Tel : 011 258 2798
NRC Field Office NRC Solidar Tel: 06 222 5565(4340) Tel : 011 267 9210 Tel: 011 250 6417 (6397) SCC Activities ■ Return Assistance and Contingency Planning: More than 305,000 IDPs at peak displacement across Sri Lanka 14,600 Emergency Family Shelters and 8,500 tents in response ■ Coordination: ▪Housing stock assessments in areas of return. ▪ Regular meetings and situational reporting. ▪Repair kit packaging and distributions. ▪ Focal points for data collection. ▪Contingency awareness and preparedness. ▪ Identifying gaps in the relief effort. ▪ Potential site and welfare center ▪ Prioritizing needs in appropriate response. assessments. ▪ Government liaison and lobbying as required. ▪Center upgrades and site plans as ▪ Inter-sector and stakeholder information sharing. required. ▪ Technical working groups established. ▪Awareness training on preparednes planning and humanitarian basic standards. ■ Emergency IDP sites: ▪ Site identification and layout planning. ▪ Supervision of site development. The demands on the shelter actors in 2007, responding ▪ Rapid response maintenance teams mobilized. to multiple large scale displacements, have been ▪ Camp safety handouts created and distributed. immense, not least because they fall on the back of a ▪ Decommissioning guidelines and material salvage. tsunami recovery of unprecedented scale. In ▪ Camp consolidation plan and information notice. response, the Shelter Coordination Cell (SCC) has ▪ Ongoing care and maintenance of camps. been active in all areas of displacement as well as places of relocation and wherever possible areas of return. From emergency coordination of the shelter ■ Shelter Designs: sector to the planning and ▪ Host family shelter support packages. supervised implementation of ▪ Assisted return shelter repair packages. emergency shelter infrastructure the ▪ Multi-family emergency shelter. SCC has been engaged across the country. ▪ Standardization of designs– Emergency Shelter Additionally, technical guidance and policy has been “Handbook of Options”. developed on preferential options of assistance, methodical decommissioning and future emergency preparedness.