Shelter after Desaster
IFRC, UN OCHA
Guideline, English, 257 pages
Summary
In 1975 the newly formed Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator (UNDRO) (a predecessor of UNOCHA) contacted me to discuss whether I would lead the first UN study of Shelter After Disaster. Initially, the Director had in mind for me to assist in the design of some form of UN shelter product that could be transported to wherever there were homeless disaster affected people. However, after extensive discussions this rather fanciful notion was replaced by a research project to investigate the issues and develop a series of practical guidelines for assisting groups that included UN agencies, governments and NGO’s. The Government of the Netherlands provided the funding for the project.
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Construction | Shelter