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Disaster Response Shelter Catalogue Disaster Response Shelter Catalogue Disaster Response Shelter Catalogue Disaster Response Shelter Catalogue Copyright 2012 Habitat for Humanity International Front cover: Acknowledgements Sondy-Jonata Orientus’ family home was destroyed in the 2010 earthquake We are extremely grateful to all the members of the Habitat for Humanity that devastated Haiti, and they were forced to live in a makeshift tent made of network who made this publication possible. Special thanks to the global tarpaulins. Habitat for Humanity completed the family’s new home in 2011. © Habitat Disaster Response community of practice members. Habitat for Humanity International/Ezra Millstein Compilation coordinated by Mario C. Flores Back cover: Editorial support by Phil Kloer Top: Earthquake destruction in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. © Habitat for Humanity International Steffan Hacker Contributions submitted by Giovanni Taylor-Peace, Mike Meaney, Ana Cristina Middle: Reconstruction in Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, after tropical storm Washi. Pérez, Pete North, Kristin Wright, Erwin Garzona, Nicolas Biswas, Jaime Mok, © Habitat for Humanity Internationa/Leonilo Escalada Scarlett Lizana Fernández, Irvin Adonis, Jessica Houghton, V. Samuel Peter, Bottom: A tsunami-affected family in Indonesia in front of their nearly completed Justin Jebakumar, Joseph Mathai, Andreas Hapsoro, Rudi Nadapdap, Rashmi house. © Habitat for Humanity International/Kim McDonald Manandhar, Amrit Bahadur B.K., Leonilo (Tots) Escalada, David (Dabs) Liban, Mihai Grigorean, Edward Fernando, Behruz Dadovoeb, Kittipich Musica, Additional photo credits: Ezra Millstein, Steffan Hacker, Jaime Mok, Mike Meaney, Nguyen Thi Yen. Mario Flores, Kevin Kehus, Maria Chomyszak, Leonilo (Tots) Escalada, Mikel Flamm, Irvin Adonis, V. Samuel Peter, Sara E. Coppler, Tom Rogers, Joseph Mathai, Additional thanks to Heron Holloway and James Samuel for reviewing part of Justin Jebakumar, Behruz Dadovoeb, Gerardo Soto, Mihai Gregorian, Edward the materials. Fernando, Ed Dunsworth, Meredith Crème, Nguyen Thi Yen, Amrit Bahadur B.K., Malvin Pagdanganan, Kim McDonald, Bonnie Vollmering, Eddie Byrd, Adrienne A final recognition to all the field staff from Habitat national organizations and Traxinger, Robert Baker, HFH New Zealand, HFH Guatemala, HFH Argentina, HFH affiliates who worked with extreme dedication and commitment to make all Honduras, HFH Chile, HFH Nepal, Cedar Valley HFH, Rebuilding Together. of these interventions possible. Our thoughts go out to all disaster-affected families that participated in these projects. Habitat.org/disaster Table of Contents Foreword 7 Introduction 9 Pathways to Permanence 11 Disaster Response World Map 18 Africa and the Middle East 20 Asia and the Pacific 30 Europe and Central Asia 104 Latin America and the Caribbean 114 United States and Canada 158 Bibliography and References 173 Foreword Low-income families living in substandard housing are among those most vulnerable to natural and man-made hazards and the turmoil of armed conflicts. The devastation resulting from disasters destroys homes and livelihoods, and dreams for the future. War and civil unrest create millions of refugees and internally displaced people. Families whose lives are upended often struggle to rebuild their lives with few tools or resources. Providing humanitarian aid to affected families requires immediate action. However, the need for simple, decent, well-built shelter remains for months and years — long after the headlines fade. Since responding to Hurricane Mitch, which struck Central America in 1998, Habitat for Humanity has increased its capacity to support disaster risk reduction and response worldwide. Our work after some of the worst disasters of the past decade — including the 2010 Haiti earthquake, Hurricane Katrina on the U.S. Gulf Coast in 2005 and the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 — has forever changed our idea of what’s possible. To date, we have provided shelter assistance in a wide variety of forms to more than 80,000 families facing the gravest of circumstances. Our goal is to help families not only acquire adequate housing, but also to help them return to schools, jobs and communities that can help them create a pathway to permanence. Habitat’s first Disaster Response Shelter Catalogue is an overview of our work around the world. We hope it will provide an inspiring record of our disaster response and mitigation efforts and will capture many of the valuable lessons we have learned. Habitat for Humanity believes that every single person we serve is of infinite worth. We celebrate each family that moves into a home, each livelihood that is restored and each child who does better in school because they have a safe place to study. I want to thank everyone who has supported our disaster response efforts: all the Habitat staffers who have worked long hours in stressful situations, all the donors who have responded with generous hearts, all the volunteers who have left behind their daily responsibilities to offer help, and all our amazing partner families. Our prayers continue to be with those who are starting anew, and Habitat remains committed to helping those affected by future disasters. Jonathan T.M. Reckford, CEO Habitat for Humanity International Introduction For 14 years, Habitat for Humanity has been working in Disaster Response, offering a variety of interventions to help vulnerable families and communities recover from devastating disasters and conflicts. This Disaster Response Shelter Catalogue, the first one published by Habitat, seeks to give a meaningful overview of our efforts as of 2012. The reports here, selected from among Habitat’s many responses and interventions, span the globe and every possible metric, from modest local efforts to help one village to huge undertakings that involve multiple countries, partners, complex logistics and millions of dollars. Some responses have been unqualified successes. Others met with significant challenges, and the partners involved had to adapt as they went, sometimes having to re-think original goals. Those latter responses can provide valuable lessons learned, both for Habitat and for our fellow humanitarian organizations, and those lessons are included. We hope they will contribute to the institutional memory of Habitat and assist others who work in similar arenas. Habitat’s recovery initiatives include shelter and settlements interventions with an end goal of sustainable development. They include emergency shelter kits, transitional shelters, core and incremental building; complete new house construction, repairs and reconstruction; and retrofitting to enhance resistance to hazards. Access to land, affirmation of tenure rights, access to clean water and improved sanitation complement this enabling strategy. Habitat supports holistic approaches to working with families and communities who have been affected by disasters. In addition to shelter, community needs can include restoration of livelihoods, education, skills training, concerns for safety, and maintaining valuable social networks. In collaboration with community leaders, local government, humanitarian aid and development organizations and the affected families themselves, Habitat tries to address these needs where appropriate. 9 Habitat also provides customized training and resources to help communities and homeowners reduce the impact of future disasters. Mitigation and preparedness initiatives are community- based and designed to empower communities with risk-management capabilities. With particular emphasis on disaster-prone locations, Habitat works to build local capacities to identify hazards, reduce vulnerabilities and mitigate disaster effects. Initiatives are implemented by Habitat for Humanity International, Habitat affiliates, national organizations and partners. Affected families and communities participate in all stages of the work, from planning and preparation to construction. All of these tenets are summed up in our Pathways to Permanence strategy for reducing vulnerability and sheltering disaster-affected families. (For a full explanation of Pathways to Permanence, see page 11.) It’s a multi-faceted approach that rejects “one size fits all” and acknowledges that there are multiple pathways on which families will move toward the goal of permanent, durable shelter and settlements solutions. Pathways to Permanence includes the affected populations in the decision-making process, and includes listening and responding to the people we are assisting. We would like to take this opportunity to thank those members of the Habitat Disaster Response community of practice around the world who contributed to this publication and encourage the study and dissemination of the many lessons contained here. We would also like to recognize the thousands of committed and dedicated workers, staffers, volunteers, partners and families who have been and continue to be a part of our Disaster Response efforts for a world where everyone has a decent place to live. Mario C. Flores Director, Disaster Response Field Operations Habitat for Humanity International 10 Pathways to Permanence: A Strategy for Disaster Response and Beyond By Mario C. Flores and Michael C. Meaney Introduction As Habitat for Humanity International began assembling and distributing emergency shelter kits in Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake, the response team started looking to the next set of interventions. In coordination with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee Shelter Cluster, the response team decided that
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