Shelter
Housing, temporary camps, land management, shelter policies and legislation
Go to Guidance Notes on Shelter and Recovery
Go to World Bank's A Handbook for Reconstructing After Natural Disasters
moreOrganizations
IRP partner organizations and organizations working in recovery.
moreMeetings and Trainings
Professional development on recovery issues through conferences, workshops, training and academic programmes
- IRP Regional Workshop in Yogyakarta (PDF, 270.6KB)
Action for Effective Management of Post-Disaster Recovery 3-5 Nov 2009 [IRP] - IRP regional recovery forum
Beyond lessons learned from post-disaster recovery 8 Nov 2007 [IRP] - International forum on tsunami and earthquake
Progress of the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action and recovery from tsunami and earthquake 15-16 Jan 2007 [IRP] - First regional workshop on the earthquake risk reduction and recovery preparedness programme (ERRP) for South Asia
10-12 Aug 2008 [ADRC, UNDP] - View all
moreIRP Case Studies
Case Studies aim to provide useful information essential for post disaster recovery
moreTools and Guidelines
Find tools and guidelines useful for recovery operations
- Guidance note on early recovery (PDF, 3.1MB)
2008 [UNDP] - Guidance note on early recovery (PDF, 3.1MB)
2008 [UNDP] - Gender and Shelter (PDF, 297.5KB)
2009 [IRP] - Handbook for estimating the socio-economic and environmental effects of disasters (PDF, 7.4MB)
2003 [ECLAC] - South Asia earthquake 2005: Learning from previous recovery operations (PDF, 681.4KB)
2005 [ProVention Consortium] - View all
morePublications
Select recovery documents and publications. Contributions welcome
- Post disaster Housing Reconstruction: Comparative Study of Donor Driven vs. Owner Driven Approach (PDF, 505.4KB)
Post disaster Housing Reconstruction: Comparative Study of Donor Driven vs. Owner Driven Approach 2011 - Earthquake Reconstruction (PDF, 3.5MB)
Recovery framework 2011 [GFDRR] - Elements of disaster resilience: lessons from Bangladesh (PDF, 7.9MB)
Mainstreaming Livelihood-Centred Approaches 2010 - Building Back Better (PDF, 2.1MB)
Delivering people-centred housing reconstruction at scale 2010 - Populations at Risk of Disaster: A Resettlement Guide
2011 [GFDRR] - Housing reconstruction in post-earthquake Gujarat (PDF, 1.8MB)
A comparative analysis 2006 - Housing reconstruction and rehabilitation in Aceh and Nias (PDF, 3.1MB)
Rebuilding lives 2007 [UN-HABITAT] - Preliminary assessment: Great East Japan Earthquake 2011 (PDF, 2MB)
2011 [ADRC, IRP] - The March 11, 2011, Great East Japan (Tohoku) Earthquake and Tsunami: Societal Dimensions
2011 - White Paper on Disaster Managment 2011-Executive Summary (PDF, 802.2KB)
2011 [Cabinet Office, Japan] - Preliminary assessment: Great East Japan Earthquake 2011 (PDF, 2MB)
[ADRC, IRP] - Case study: Housing reconstruction in Mexico City
1990 [The World Bank] - TCG Paper on shelter needs in Myanmar post Nargis recovery (PDF, 1.2MB)
2010 [UN-HABITAT] - Five years after the tsunami: MDF report (PDF, 3.6MB)
Continuing the commitment to reconstruction in Aceh 2009 [The World Bank] - Rebuilding a safer Aceh against earthquake hazard (PDF, 2.2MB)
2007 - Measuring shelter recovery in Aceh - Indonesia (PDF, 309.7KB)
Was community recovery achieved? Are communities less vulnerable? 2007 [UN-HABITAT] - Early recovery and risk reduction - Yogyakarta & Central Java Earthquake (PDF, 6MB)
Lessons learned by PMI-IFRC 2007 [IFRC] - Two years after the Tsunami (Aceh and Nias) (PDF, 219.9KB)
2007 [UN-HABITAT] - Reconstruction in Pakistan (PDF, 1MB)
2007 - Post Tsunami restoration (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) (PDF, 6.4MB)
2007 - Rebuilding homes and communities after disasters (PDF, 1.9MB)
Supporting a people's process of recovery 2007 [UN-HABITAT] - Recovery reports: Pakistan (from South Asia Earthquake 2005) (PDF, 5.5MB)
2007 [ERRA] - Tsunami Recovery Status Report: India (PDF, 1.5MB)
Recovery from the Indian Ocean Tsunami; The Indian experience 2007 [NDMA] - Tsunami Recovery Status Report: Maldives (PDF, 2.1MB)
2007 [Ministry of Housing, Transport and Environment, Maldives] - ERRA rural housing reconstruction program (PDF, 203.4KB)
Progress report quarter ended 31st December 2008 2008 [ERRA] - Aceh and Nias BRR Presentation (PDF, 527.1KB)
2008 [BRR] - Our initiatives for recovery from the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake (PDF, 1.7MB)
2008 [Hyogo Prefectural Government, Japan] - Lessons learned from the Great Hanshin-Awaji earthquake case (PDF, 2.5MB)
2008 - Indonesia: Notes on reconstruction the December 26, 2004 natural disaster (PDF, 2.2MB)
A technical report prepared by BAPPENAS and the international donor community 2005 [BAPPENAS] - Japanese earthquake insurance
- A comparative study on recovery and reconstruction (PDF, 145.1KB)
A case for an international platform 2003 [ADRC] - A preliminary assessment of damage from the flood and cyclone emergency of February-March 2000 (PDF, 258.6KB)
2000 [The World Bank] - Emergency reconstruction support program El Salvador (PDF, 1.3MB)
Following the earthquake of 13 January 2001 2001 [The World Bank] - Guyana: Preliminary damage and needs assessment (PDF, 730.9KB)
Following the intense flooding of January 2005 2005 [The World Bank] - Invest to prevent disaster: Case study 1 Vietnam (PDF, 1.2MB)
Microfinance and disaster preparedness: an innovative approach for housing preventive reinforcement against cyclone and flood damages, Viet Nam 2005 [UNDP] - Bam: One year after (PDF, 41.1KB)
2004 [UN/ISDR] - South Asia Earthquake 2005: Learning from previous earthquake releif operations (PDF, 674KB)
2005 [ALNAP] - Gujarat Earthquake Recovery Program Assessment (PDF, 148.4KB)
2001 [ADB] - South Asia Earthquake 2005 (PDF, 681.4KB)
Learning from previous recovery operations 2005 [ALNAP] - Tsunami emergency lessons from previous natural disasters (PDF, 83.4KB)
2005 [ALNAP] - Florida Post-Disaster Redevelopment Planning Guidebook
2010 - Asian Tsunami: Aid and Reconstruction after a Disaster
2010 - Assessing and Responding to Land Tenure Issues in Disaster Risk Management (PDF, 1.2MB)
2011 [FAO, UN-HABITAT] - Build Change Handbook 2009 on Simple, Earthquake-Resistant Housing in Indonesia
2009 - Haiti Earthquake PDNA (PDF, 1.5MB)
Assessment of damage, losses, general and sectoral needs 2010 [Government of Haiti] - Action Plan for National Development and Recovery of Haiti (PDF, 1.5MB)
Immediate Key Initiatives for the Future 2010 [Government of Haiti] - Timber (PDF, 2.6MB)
2007 [UN/OCHA] - Confined Masonary (PDF, 2.5MB)
[ACBAR] - Literature Review for Shelter after Disaster (PDF, 5.4MB)
2011 [Shelter Centre] - Bahan Bahan Asbes: Dalam Situasi Daruat (PDF, 5.8MB)
Bahasa translation of the "Brief Guide to Asbestos in Emergencies: Safer Handling & Breaking the Cycle" 2011 [Shelter Centre] - A Brief Guide to Asbestos in Emergencies (PDF, 963.3KB)
Safer Handling and Breaking the Cycle 2009 [Shelter Centre] - Damage/Needs Assessment In the Affected Area of The 2011 off the Pacific Coast of Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami (PDF, 3.7MB)
2011 [SEEDS Asia] - The Great Eastern Japan Earthquake:In depth damage report by affected cities SEEDS (PDF, 889.8KB)
2011 [SEEDS Asia] - Urban disasters – lessons from Haiti (PDF, 3.6MB)
2011 [DEC] - Lesson learned and way forward for resilient shelter interventions in rural Myanmar (PDF, 1MB)
Context: Post Nargis Shelter Intervention 2011 [UN-HABITAT, UN/ISDR] - Rebuilding Lives and Homes in Aceh and Nias, Indonesia (PDF, 2.4MB)
Rebuilding Lives and Homes in Aceh and Nias: A Retrospective 2010 [ADB] - BRR Book Series - Housing- Roofing the Pillars of Hope (PDF, 5.7MB)
HOUSING - Roofing the Pillars of Hope 2009 [BRR] - Earthquake Resistant Housing Peru (PDF, 1MB)
1997 - Guiding Principles for Post-Tsunami Reconstruction (PDF, 413.1KB)
2005 [UNEP] - India Reconstruction Following the 2004 Tsunami: Livelihoods (PDF, 49.2KB)
2006 [SEEDS Asia] - Shelter Projects 2009
2009 [IFRC, UN-HABITAT] - Guidelines for Reconstruction of Houses Affected by the Tsunami (PDF, 1.1MB)
General and Public Buildings (Masonry) 2007 [UNDP] - Disaster Resistant Construction Practices (PDF, 3.6MB)
2007 [UNDP] - Reconceiving Recovery (DOC, 124KB)
2004 - Guidelines for Building Measures after Disasters and Conflicts (PDF, 1.7MB)
2003 - IRP Recovery Status Report 01 Yogyakarta
The Yogyakarta and Central Java Earhquake 2006 Current Status Report 2010 [IRP] - Lessons from Aceh: key considerations in post-disaster reconstruction (PDF, 6.8MB)
2010 [DEC] - Guidance on including older people in emergency shelter programmes (PDF, 348.5KB)
2011 [IFRC] - Sphere Project Handbook 2011 (PDF, 5.1MB)
2011 [Sphere Project] - Recovery After the 2007 Pisco, Peru Earthquake (PDF, 242.5KB)
2008 - Design of Safe Shelters post tsunami (PDF, 1.2MB)
2005 [UNDP] - Housing reconstruction and rehabilitation in Aceh and Nias, Indonesia—Rebuilding lives (PDF, 3.1MB)
2007 [UN-HABITAT] - Report on the 2008 Great Sichuan Earthquake
2009 [UNCRD] - Principles, Themes and Lessons Learnt: Design and Implementation of ERRA’s Rural Housing Programme (PDF, 608.9KB)
2007 [ERRA] - Shelter after tsunami (PDF, 454.5KB)
2005 - Benefits of flood insurance for better recovery (PDF, 542.5KB)
2004 - Earthquake Resistant Confined Masonary Construction (PDF, 2.5MB)
2007 - Rebuilding Housing after Hurricane Mitch (PDF, 790.8KB)
2007 [IFRC] - Masonary buildings damage: Lessons from Japan (PDF, 1.5MB)
1996 - Seismic design of steel buildings Lessons from Japan earthquake (PDF, 5.5MB)
1996 - Shelter Security in Kashmir - Long-term Recovery (PDF, 848KB)
2006 - Post Disaster Reconstruction (PDF, 218.8KB)
2003 - Housing reconstruction in post-earthquake Gujarat: A comparative analysis
Network Paper 54 2006 [ODI] - Post tsunami construction manual (PDF, 581.1KB)
2006 - Assessment of Post-Tsunami Housing Reconstruction in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, A People's Perspective (PDF, 841.6KB)
2006 - Handbook on Good Building Design and Construction (PDF, 2.1MB)
2007 [UNDP, UN/ISDR] - Haiti Earthquake Reconstruction Knowledge Notes
2010 [GFDRR] - Housing reconstruction after conflict and disaster
Network Paper 43 2003 [ODI] - After the Tsunami: Sustainable Building Guides for Southeast Asia (PDF, 639.7KB)
2007 [UNEP] - Manual on Hazard Resistant Construction in India (PDF, 5.6MB)
For Reducing Vulnerability in Buildings Built without Enginners 2008 [UNDP] - Defining Success: Tsunami Recovery in the Maldives, 2004-2006 (PDF, 3.6MB)
2006 - Evolving Strategies for Long-Term Rehabilitation on Shelter and Habitat Development in the Tsuanami Affected Areas of Tamil Nadu (PDF, 3.2MB)
2005 [UNDP] - Building Materials-Annotated UN HABITAT Bibliography (PDF, 1.5MB)
2003 [UN-HABITAT] - Land and Natural Disasters Guidance for Practitioners (PDF, 2.6MB)
2010 [UN-HABITAT, FAO] - Sri Lanka Innovative Approaches for Involuntary Resettlement (PDF, 1.8MB)
Lunawa Environmental Improvement and Community Development Project 2009 [JICA, UN-HABITAT] - Shelter after Disaster (PDF, 5.6MB)
2010 [UN/OCHA, DFID] - Rebuilding 101 Manual: Rebuilding Strategies for Haiti (PDF, 3.6MB)
2010 [Architecture for Humanity] - Transitional to What? (PDF, 6.6MB)
2010 [Architecture for Humanity] - Transitional Shelter: Understanding Shelter from the Emergency through Reconstruction and Beyond (PDF, 694.9KB)
2010 [ALNAP] - Timber as a Construction Material (PDF, 1.4MB)
2009 [IFRC] - Owner-Driven Housing Reconstruction Guidelines (PDF, 1.8MB)
2010 [IFRC] - Preliminary Impact Evaluation of the Transitional Shelter Programme in Aceh Province, Indonesia (PDF, 433.7KB)
2007 [IFRC] - The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake (PDF, 572.7KB)
Overall Verification and Recommendations 2005 [Hyogo Prefectural Government, Japan] - Disaster Reconstruction in Japan: Lessons Learned from the Kobe Earthquake (PDF, 596.2KB)
an ADRC presentation at World Bank 2006 [ADRC] - Housing Reconstruction in Gujarat (PDF, 612.1KB)
A Comparative Analysis 2006 - Responding to urban disasters (PDF, 225.1KB)
Learning from previous relief and recovery operations 2009 [ALNAP] - Supporting community recovery and risk reduction in Yogyakarta (PDF, 3.2MB)
2009 [IFRC] - Handbook on Good Building Design and Construction: Aceh (PDF, 2.1MB)
2007 [UNDP] - Field Report: - Building back better in Pakistan (PDF, 209.3KB)
2007 [UN-HABITAT] - Seven Principles for Planning and Designing for Tsunami Hazards (PDF, 532.9KB)
2001 - IMPROVING EARTHQUAKE RESISTANCE OF SMALL BUILDINGS (PDF, 924.5KB)
2005 - Homeowners Guide Safe Shelter_Gujarat (PDF, 1.4MB)
2006 [Cabinet Office, Japan] - Cash grants aid recovery in the Bahamas after Tropical Storm Noel (PDF, 604.9KB)
2008 [IFRC] - Shelter projects 2008 (PDF, 46.7MB)
2008 [IFRC, UN-HABITAT] - Lessons from the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake
2008 [JICA] - Rebuilding after Hurricane Mitch: Housing reconstruction in Honduras and Nicaragua (PDF, 790.8KB)
2007 [IFRC] - Learning lessons from disaster recovery: the case of Mozambique (PDF, 2.2MB)
Disaster risk management working paper series No.12 2005 [The World Bank] - Reducing risk through environment in recovery operations (PDF, 983.9KB)
2009 [UNEP, UN/ISDR] - Turkey Marmara earthquake assessment (PDF, 820.4KB)
1999 [The World Bank] - Belize: Assessment of the damage caused by Hurricane Keith, 2000 (PDF, 1MB)
Implications for economic, social and environmental development 2000 [ECLAC] - Indonesia: Preliminary damage and loss assessment (PDF, 3.1MB)
The December 26, 2004 natural disaster 2005 [BAPPENAS] - Tsunami: Impact and recovery (PDF, 309.2KB)
Maldives post-Tsunami damage and needs assessment 2005 [The World Bank] - India: Post-Tsunami recovery program (PDF, 1.9MB)
Preliminary damage and needs assessment 2005 [ADB] - Pakistan 2005 earthquake (PDF, 1.2MB)
Preliminary damage and needs assessment 2005 [ADB] - Indonesia: Post-earthquake damage and loss assessment for Central Java and Yogyakarta (PDF, 5.8MB)
2006 [ADB, BAPPENAS] - Survivors of the Tsunami: One year later (PDF, 2.1MB)
UNDP Assisting Communities to Build Back Better 2005 [UNDP] - Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh: Damage, loss, and needs assessment for disaster recovery and reconstruction (PDF, 7MB)
2008 [European Commission] - 2008 Cyclone season in Madagascar: Damage, loss, and needs assessment for disaster recovery and reconstruction (PDF, 6.2MB)
Cyclone Fame, Ivan and Jokwe in Madagascar 2008 [The World Bank] - Post-Nargis joint assessment (PDF, 3.6MB)
A report prepared by the Tripartite Core Group comprised of Representatives of Government the Union of Myanmar, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the United Nations with the support of the Humanitarian and Development Community 2008 [ASEAN] - Pakistan 2005 earthquake (PDF, 3.8MB)
Early recovery framework 2005 - IRP regional recovery forum 2007 (PDF, 1.9MB)
Beyond lessons learned from post-disaster recovery 2007 [IRP] - From relief to recovery (PDF, 1.7MB)
The GUJARAT experience 2001 [UNDP] - Rebuilding homes and livelihoods in Jamaica after Hurricane Dean (PDF, 477.3KB)
2008 [IFRC] - Rebuilding homes and livelihoods in Grenada after Hurricane Ivan (PDF, 488KB)
2008 [IFRC] - Sri Lanka 2005 post-Tsunami recovery program (PDF, 551.8KB)
Preliminary damage and needs assessment 2005 [ADB] - Learning lessons from disaster recovery: the case of Bangladesh (PDF, 523.2KB)
Disaster risk management working paper series No.11 2005 [The World Bank] - Review of International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies recovery operations summary report (PDF, 669.1KB)
2006 [IFRC] - International Recovery Forum on Tsunami and Earthquake (PDF, 523.2KB)
Progress of the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action and Recovery from Tsunami and Earthquake 2007 [IRP] - View all
moreProjects by IRP Partner Organizations
IRP member organizations related recovery projects
- Earthquake Risk Reduction and Recovery Preparedness Programme for South Asian Region
2007 [ADRC, UNDP] - Earthquake risk reduction and recovery preparedness programme for Nepal
2008 [UNDP] - Safer Homes, Stronger Communities
A Handbook for Reconstructing After Natural Disasters 2009 [GFDRR] - View all