IOM Pakistan

One Room ShelterEarly Recovery Shelter Program

Vulnerability

Resilience

The 2011 floods affected an estimated 5.5 million people including a displaced population of 1.8 million individuals

Initial assessments indicated 82% of the people affected were in dire need for shelter assistance and that approximately 1 million houses had been damaged

Current situation•22,573 units completed for 2011 floods, following 38,000 units for 2010 floods and a new program started for 11,400 units, overall goal 75,000 units by May 2014

•32% of women as direct ORS beneficiaries

•6.7 million USD distributed as cash support directly to the beneficiaries reconstruction effort,

•11,681 Training sessions with 80,968 women attendants and 62,689 non-beneficiaries attendants

Challenges and opportunities• User centered reconstruction is not picture perfect and competes

with basic needs, resilience derives from technical mentoring;

• Limited capacity of local organizations requires more technical guidance and participatory mentoring;

• Replicable in rural areas where people already build vernacular or capacity and knowledge exist allowing to advance local practices

• Not all beneficiaries will have the capacity or willingness to follow all program technical requirements

• Procurement of materials requires further monitoring, assumptions and preconceptions tend to prevail in order to generate savings from the overall cash grant;

Best Practices and Lessons leaned• Technical requirements must capture local strengths and needs,

cannot be an alien process replacing existent coping mechanisms and must be perceived as an improvement to available knowledge and resources

• Materials should be easily available and replaceable, with special focus on their life cycle and environmental foot print

• BHH should be able to chose from a range of designs and how to utilize the money in the construction

• User centered reconstruction is not picture perfect and competes with basic needs, donors maybe unwilling to accept self choice and prioritization made by beneficiaries;

• Shelter is a process, during which quality and sustainability will correlate directly to the learning and knowledge transfer investment made by implementers.

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