Shelter and Infrastructure

When can it be useful?
IndiKit website offers guidance on the use of shelter and NFI indicators, including specific survey questions, practical tips and things to be careful about.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

Also available in: Arabic, French

When can it be useful?
This resource provides a comprehensive guide on how to design disability-inclusive emergency response and shelter program.

Language: English, French, Arabic

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Project Design Examples

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This resource can help you to introduce HLP to field staff.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes

When can it be useful?
This resource provides a list of eight case studies from CRS aimed to gain a better understanding of when cash for shelter outcomes works, why it works, and what factors contribute to its success or failure. In six countries project participants were able to meet Sphere and other building standards. In one country, CRS decided against using cash. In another country, CRS used a mixed modality.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Strategies, Project Design Examples

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This resource explains in detail how to design, manage and monitor rental assistance programs.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Checklists, Project Design Examples

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This resource provides a general overview to HLP and rental issues and a country by country profile of HLP situation, shelter response, cross cutting issues and lessons learned.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Strategies, Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

Also available in: French

When can it be useful?
This resource collects and explains the theoretical principles and the methodology of the settlement/area based approach which is now increasingly promoted by humanitarian actors and donors.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Strategies, Innovations

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
This resource is a collection of case studies in different geographical areas in which the settlement/area based approach has been implemented

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Strategies, Project Design Examples, Innovations

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design

Useful for: Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, Country Directors / (Support) Desk Officers

When can it be useful?
The resource can help with a wide selection of shelter tipologies from the UNHCR catalogue; with drawings, BoQs and a focus on environmental impact and carbon footprint.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals, Project Design Examples

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes

When can it be useful?
This resource provides basic information about site planning and gender-based violence risks, it provides practical guidance for measures which can be taken to reduce risks to affected populations in and around camps and sites. This booklet is targeted at field practitioners.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Initial Orientation, Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes

When can it be useful?
This resource is aimed at Shelter/NFI team members working in distribution assessments, planning, implementation and post distribution monitoring of distributions of Shelter materials, NFIs and cash. It highlights ways in which distributions can reduce some of the risks of Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and avoid doing harm. Simply put, this booklet is about good distributions.

Language: English

Region: Africa, Asia, Middle East, Europe & Caucasus

Resource type: Toolkits & Manuals

Useful during: Assessment and Project Design, Implementation, Monitoring and Evaluation

Useful for: Field Officers, Project / Programme Managers / Heads of Programmes, M&E Managers / Officers