Shelter after Disaster-Guidelines for Assistance

This research project  investigated the issues of sheltering after a disaster and published a series of practical guidelines for assisting groups that included UN agencies, governments and NGO’s in 1982.

The study was carried out in two phases: the first from July 1975 to September 1977, and the second from November 1979 to May 1982. During the first phase the bulk of the evidence was assembled and analysed. The second phase of the study saw the development of planning and policy guidelines for emergency shelter provision, and postdisaster housing more generally.

Its most distingishing feature being the emphasis on shelter needs from the standint of the survivor receiving aid. It also seeks to assist disaster-prone countries and all assisting groups, in solving as effectively as possible the problems of emergency shelter and post-disaster housing through the emergency and reconstruction periods. By the same token, therfore, this study is also a guide to pre-disaster planning, in anticipating future disaster.