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Consultations
The
Sphere Project: Handbook Revision Shelter and Site Planning
Feedback Meeting
September 18, 2002
Ahmedabad
Participants: UNICEF, IFRC, NCDM, SEWA, DISHA, Oxfam GB, Concern
Worldwide, British Red Cross, EFSN, Sadvichar Parivar, Discipleship
Centre, Hind Swaraj Mandal, Caritas India, Save the Children,
CRS and DMI
Partners: Catholic Relief Services (CRS) |
Key
Recommendations
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For
the poor among victims shelter is also a place of
work. Sphere Standards does not include this.
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2.
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It
is important to use the internet as a means for exchange
and developing experiences, idea, and data in relation
to shelter standards, along with creative utilisation
of the Sphere standards for evaluating the performance
of orgnisations in past humanitarian response.
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There
exist socio-psycho implications of shelter for disaster
response and recovery, which needs to be addressed by
Sphere standards.
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It
is imperative to inform and support beneficiary communities
of their shelter and location rights expressed in
these standards.
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The
issue of timing and shelter with regard to planning,
executing and evaluating needs to receive special attention
in revising the relevant chapters.
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6.
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Focus
must move away from formal and camp shelters to what
victims build on their own beyond camps and in communities.
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Basic
Information Sheet
Silent
Voices
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