Response Net: Shelter & Settlement Planning, RedR India

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‘Settlement Planning & Shelter in emergencies’ is a four-day residential course run by RedR India that helps you understand strategies and practices that are intrinsic to shelter sector and humanitarian sector in general. The course is part of RedR's Training Programme, which aims to improve the effectiveness of specialist and non-specialist in emergency response.

A RedR India Training

"Settlement Planning and Shelter in Emergencies"

Date: 17

(Reporting 16th evening)

Venue: Pondicherry, India
th - 20th August 2010
(Nearest International Airport is Chennai)

Introduction:

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helter or home and settlement are essential to well being and development of communities.

"It is a complex asset, with links to livelihood, health, education, security and social and family

stability. Housing is also an extremely vulnerable asset, and the destruction of homes or loss

through displacement or dispossession is one of the most visible effect of conflict or natural

disaster"

… Prof. Sultan Barakat, Lecturer, University of York, UK

A number of NGOs venture to respond to the post disaster shelter needs but few claim specialization in this sector. Understanding, Policies and practices in this sector have just crystallizing. A huge opportunity exists in the form of shelter interventions to address post disaster recovery and mitigation.

„Settlement Planning & Shelter in emergencies‟ is a four-day residential course run by RedR India that helps you understand strategies and practices that are intrinsic to shelter sector and humanitarian sector in general. The course is part of RedR's Training Programme, which aims to improve the effectiveness of specialist and non-specialist in emergency response.

RedR India will run this course with participants predominantly from South Asia, though it is open to participants from other parts of the world. The course is run with up to 30 participants.