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Design for Humanity Summit Registration Open – June 22, 2018
Defining a Humanitarian Shelter and Settlements Research Agenda Survey
The University of Colorado Boulder is surveying organizations working in the area of humanitarian shelter and settlements to identify pressing research needs. This survey seeks to identify key areas for future research and define a research agenda to guide NGOs, governments, and academic institutions. The results are expected to create a platform that can prioritize research to better address current knowledge gaps in the sector.
As a representative of an organization that works in humanitarian shelter and settlements, we would like to invite you to participate in this research via an short online survey. We anticipate that the survey will take approximately 10 minutes. Your participation in this research is voluntary, and your responses will be completely confidential.
Please visit the following link to complete the survey online: Defining a Humanitarian Shelter and Settlements Research Agenda Survey
If you have any questions about the survey or wish to contact the research team, please email Dr. Aaron Opdyke at aaron.opdyke@colorado.edu, Casie Venable at casie.venable@colorado.edu, Shaye Palagi at shaye.palagi@colorado.edu, or Dr. Amy Javernick-Will at amy.javernick@colorado.edu.
You may sign up to receive a copy of the results via email at the end of the survey.
Global Projects & Organizations Research Group
University of Colorado Boulder
State of the Humanitarian System report
ALNAP needs your help for the 2018 edition of the State of the Humanitarian System report, there are two ways in which you can help:
- Complete the survey ONLY if you have been directly involved in a specific operational humanitarian response since 2015. French, Spanish and Arabic versions also available.
- Disseminate the survey within your networks. This could include circulating it through communities of practice, listservs and/or mentioning it in your website, newsletter or via social media (#SOHS2018).
Cluster vacancies
- Senior Shelter Coordination Officer - UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Closing date: 11 Jun 2018
- Profile Shelter Cluster Coordinator - UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Closing date: 30 Dec 2018
Publications
Forced Migration Review issue 55 with a major feature on ‘Shelter in displacement’
All displaced people need some form of shelter. Whatever the type of shelter which is found, provided or built, it needs to answer multiple needs: protection from the elements, physical security, safety, comfort, emotional security, some mitigation of risk and unease, and even, as time passes, some semblance of home and community. This latest issue of FMR looks at the complexity of approaches to shelter both as a physical object in a physical location and as a response to essential human needs.
It also contains a selection of ‘general’ articles on other forced migration topics.
Read the full issue or individual articles online at www.fmreview.org/shelter (audio/podcast versions also available via this link) or email fmr@qeh.ox.ac.uk to request print copies for your organisation, or for onward distribution or for use in training. (If requesting print copies, please remember to send us your full postal address.)
This issue will be available in English, Arabic, French and Spanish.
Thanks to the following for their financial support for this issue: Better Shelter, Happold Foundation, Hunter and Stephanie Hunt, Norwegian Refugee Council, Open Society Foundations, Suricatta Systems, Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, UN-Habitat and UNHCR (DPSM).
Spanning humanitarian responses from all over the world, Shelter Projects 2015-2016 is the sixth in a series of compilations of shelter case studies, overviews of emergencies and opinion pieces. The projects represent responses to conflict, natural disasters and complex or multiple crises, demonstrating some of the implementation and response options available. The book is intended to support learning by highlighting the strengths, weaknesses and some of the lessons that can be learned from different projects, which try to maximize emergency funds to safeguard the health, security and dignity of affected people, whilst – wherever possible – supporting longer-term shelter needs and sustainable recovery. The target audience is humanitarian managers and shelter programme staff from local, national and international organizations at all levels of experience. Shelter Projects is also a useful resource for advocacy purposes, showcasing the work done by the sector, as well as for research and capacity-building activities.
Design for Humanity Summit Registration Open – June 22, 2018