Shelter Meeting

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

Attended by representatives from the majority of major relevant global sector stakeholders (UN agencies, governments, NGOs), Shelter Meeting creates a community of practice for the shelter, settlement and reconstruction sector.

A twice-yearly global forum, the Meeting is an event during which humanitarian sector professionals share information on sector project activities; agree on and prioritise further project activities; review project activities; share programmatic and technical good practice; and support consensus on policy, standards, specifications and operating procedures.

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

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.

Previous Shelter Meetings

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

Click here for more information on the last meeting, SM12b

Previous Shelter Meeting participants

Government representatives

Government of Maharashtra, India

Humanitarian bi-lateral and multi-lateral donors

Department For International Development Conflict and Humanitarian Affairs Department Operations Team (DFID CHAD-OT)
European Commission Humanitarian aid Office (ECHO)
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)
United States Agency for International Development/ Office of the United States Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID OFDA)
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation/Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit (SDC/HA)

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 International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR)
United Nations Joint Logistics Center (UNJLC)
United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN/OCHA)

International organisations

International Organization for Migration (IOM)

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
Netherlands Red Cross
Norwegian Red Cross

Non-governmental organisations

Architects for Aid
Architectes Sans Frontieres (ASF)
CartONG
Catholic Agency For Overseas Development (CAFOD)
CARE International
CARITAS Austria
Catholic Relief Services(CRS)
Cooperative Housing Foundation (CHF)
Engineers Without Borders (EWB)
GOAL
Habitat for Humanity
Islamic Relief
Medecins Sans Frontieres, Belgium (MSF-B)
Medecins Sans Frontieres, Netherlands (MSF-H)
Medecins Sans Frontieres, Switzerland (MSF-CH)
Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF-International)
Muslim Aid
Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Oxfam GB
Practical Action
ProVention Consortium
Registered Engineers for Disaster Relief (RedR)
Save The Children Fund (SCF)
Shelter for Life (SFL)
The Sphere Project
Swiss Solidarity
Urbanistes sans Frontieres
World Vision

Observing organisations

AMURT International
Architecture & Developpement
Australian Red Cross
Benfield Hazard Research Centre, UCL
Caritas Switzerland
Centre On Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)
Eindhoven University of Technology
European Commission
French Red Cross
Norwegian Red Cross
Overseas Development Institute (ODI)
RESET
Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS)
Spanish Red Cross
Université de Genève
World Shelters