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Sharing experience in humanitarian shelter and settlements responses
Shelter Projects Essentials provides insights drawn from more than 250 case studies that have been compiled over the past 13 years in the regular Shelter Projects publications. This includes projects implemented by over 60 humanitarian organizations and governments, across 71 different countries.
Looking back across these case studies, there are multiple points of learning and of good practice that arise time and time again. In Shelter Projects Essentials we distil these points into a series of recurring messages. Extracts from a wide range of Shelter Projects case studies illustrate examples of how these messages have been applied in a variety of crises and contexts.
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Context is everything -
Shelter and settlements assistance is part of a process. It has long-term impacts -
People are active participants in their own response and recovery -
Shelter and settlements assistance must be inclusive -
There is a balance between scale, coverage, quality and impact -
Security of tenure underpins all shelter response -
Shelter and settlements go hand in hand -
Shelter and settlements assistance must link to other sectors and prioirites -
Local environmental damage is long-lasting -
Locally appropriate technical solutions work best -
Good projects reduce impacts of future shocks -
Effective projects are coordinated and planned