the NGO supporting the humanitarian community in post-conflict and disaster shelter and housing

The Shelter Meeting is a biannual shelter sector event which addresses transitional shelter and resettlement needs.

Shelter Meeting 10b

Participants at the last meeting decided that the next meeting will take place in Geneva on 2nd-3rd December 2010.

More information will be available soon.

 

Shelter Meeting 10a

The last meeting was hosted by IOM at Geneva Business Centre on 27th-28th May 2010.  The meeting had two separate themes: Private Sector Engagement and Haiti.

Presentations and materials are available for download now on the Shelter Meeting 10a page.

 

Previous Shelter Meetings

As a record for the sector, all previous meetings are summarised and presentations are available for download.

Search for information on previous Shelter Meetings.

Shelter Meeting objectives

  • Sharing information on sector project activities
  • Agreeing and prioritising further project activities
  • Agreeing on external working groups to support/review project activities
  • Reviewing project activities
  • Sharing programmatic and technical good practice
  • Supporting consensus on policy, standards, specifications & operating procedures

 

Previous Shelter Meeting participants

Non-governmental organisations

AMURT International
Article 25
Architectes de l’Urgence
Architectes Sans Frontières (ASF)
Architecture & Développement
CartONG
Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD)
CARE International
Caritas Austria
Caritas Switzerland
Catholic Relief Services (CRS)
Centre On Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
CHF International
Cordaid
Engineers Without Borders UK (EWB-UK)
FinnChurchAid
GOAL
Habitat for Humanity International
Islamic Relief
Medair International
Médecins Sans Frontières, Belgium (MSF-B)
Médecins Sans Frontières, France
Médecins Sans Frontières, Netherlands (MSF-H)
Médecins Sans Frontières, Switzerland (MSF-CH)
Médecins Sans Frontières, (MSF-International)
Muslim Aid
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Oxfam GB
Practical Action
Première Urgence
ProAct Network
ProVention Consortium
RedR
RESET
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors/
BuildAction
Save the Children Fund UK (SCF-UK)
Shelter for Life International (SFL)
The Sphere Project
Urbanistes Sans Frontières
World Shelters
World Vision International

Observing organisations

Benfield Hazard Research Centre, UCL
Cambridge University
Coventry University
Lien Institute for Environment
Oxford Brookes University
Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
Queen’s University Belfast
Southampton Solent University
TU Delft
Virje Universiteit Brussels

Government representatives

Government of Maharashtra, India
Mission of Norway in Geneva

Humanitarian bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors

Department for International Development (DFID)
European Commission Humanitarian aid Office (ECHO)
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
United States Agency for International Development/Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA)
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation/Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SDC/HA)
Swiss Solidarity

International organisations

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) Clusters

Camp Coordination and Camp Management
Emergency Shelter
Early Recovery
Logistics
Protection
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

United Nations bodies

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
United Nations Institute for Training and Research/ United Nations
Operational Satellite Applications Programme (UNITAR/UNOSAT)
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR)
United Nations Joint Logistics Centre (UNJLC)
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN/OCHA)
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

Red Cross / Red Crescent Movement

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
American Red Cross
Australian Red Cross
British Red Cross
French Red Cross
German Red Cross
Netherlands Red Cross
Norwegian Red Cross
Spanish Red Cross

History of Shelter Meeting

The first Shelter Meeting was hosted by UNDP in 2004, and it was a series of review panel meetings organised by the University of Cambridge shelterproject. This was a not-for-profit group devoted to consolidating expertise in responding to the transitional settlement and shelter needs of populations affected by conflict and natural disasters. Today the Shelter Meeting is run by Shelter Centre.