1. Shelter After Cyclone Sidr Shelter Working Group’s Lessons (2007-2009)

5. Selected Agencies Location Information shared 1 Disaster Management Bureau Saudi Govt. - Govt. of Bangladesh Dhaka, Head Office Dokhin Amragachia, Mirzaganj Interviews, discussion 2 ACF -Sangram Noltola, Barguna Sadar Interviews, documents 3 Action Aid Bangladesh Dhaka, Head Office Interviews, documents 4 BRAC Baroikhali, Morelganj Telephone discussions, documents 5 British Red Cross - BDRCS - Documents 6 CARE Bangladesh Baroikhali, Morelganj Interviews, documents 7 Caritas Baroikhali, Morelganj Interviews 8 Concern-Sangram Betagi, Barguna Interviews, documents 9 Danish Church Aid - - 10 Habitat for Humanity International Dokhin Amragachia, Mirzaganj Interviews, documents 11 IFRC – BDRCS Mahishkata, Mirzaganj Interviews, documents 12 Islamic Relief - - 13 Muslim Aid Shubedkhali, Mirzaganj Telephone discussions, Interviews 14 Spanish Red Cross- BDRCS Poshchim Shoralia, Morelganj Interviews, documents 15 Swiss Red Cross- BDRCS - - 16 UNDP-various partners Barguna Sadar Interviews, documents 17 World Vision Bangladesh Baroikhali, Morelganj Interviews, documents

9. ‘ I had to spend 5,000Taka to get my name in the list. If I waited longer, I could have had a better house built by other agencies, like my neighbours got. I was also told that I will receive a 1 lakh taka house, with a latrine but this house costs 40,000 taka and I had to add extra materials on my own expenses’

10. Government Housing for the Landless Photo 1: ‘Abashon Prokolpo’ with income generating opportunity (Source: Taraqual Islam Bhuiya /UNDP). Photo 2: Contractor built housing with communal sanitation facilities, Mirzaganj 2009. Photo 3: Housing built outside the embankment got damaged by tidal surge of cyclone Sidr, Patharghata 2007.

11. Transitional versus Permanent Owner-built or Agency built Agency Responses

12. Partnering or Subcontracting?

13. Transitional Core Shelter Cement pillar with horizontal timber members and timber roof frame- One room Permanent Core Shelter RCC frame Structure- One room Permanent Core Shelter Brick masonry structure-two rooms with a veranda Transitional Core Shelter Timber frame structure - One room Equity?

15. Photo 5: A Landless woman is receiving Khas landownership documents from land registry Office at Kalapara, Patuakhali. ( Source: Action Aid) A Landless woman is receiving khas land ownership documents from land registry Office at Kalapara, Patuakhali. A portion of landless people who received Khasland are Standing in front of Land registration office at Kalapara, Patuakhali. Permanent settlement of khas lands for 107 landless families, while they are living and waiting in their temporary shelters. Advocacy for Khas land by Action Aid Bangladesh

16. Material Selection

18. Quality: Disaster Risk Reduction?

19. Improvements

20. Prefabricated Construction Production centre in Mirjaganj (Source: Habitat for Humanity International- Bangladesh)

21. Shelter Training Topics: · Roof · Wall · Joints · Bracing · Foundation · Protection by vegetation · Questions from participants Source:IFRC/BDRCS DRR Process and Product Toolkit distribution:

24. Handover and Ownership

25. Owner’s Response Now I have changed the look of the ‘relief house’ to a home, as my daughter is getting married soon. I hired carpenters and worked myself with the children to turn the veranda into an extended room and add a kitchen on the side . I had to bring the shelter materials by myself with my two children, as the agency delivered them to a common collection point and provided me the money to hire transport. The RCC pillars were so heavy to carry even from the nearest road that for the next two days I was laid with back pain and could not move.

26. ‘ I am happy with this durable house, although the it is not complete, I can finish it slowly and can add a latrine myself later.’ – A Core House Owner

28. Cyclone Aila’s Impact Barguna 2009 (Source: ACF)

31. Top-down Challenges: Programme Design: ‘ We are given a prescribed design from the International Agencies to implement. Our opinion are too late to be heard as they started the procurement process already, so the Bill of Quantities cannot be changed’ - Partner NGO staff Donor Demand: ‘ According to the donor, our proposed shelter design was too permanent in nature, as it had cement pillars. Even a year after the cyclone, we had to revise the shelter design to make it more transitional. I wish we could say no to their demands, but we couldn’t as people need some sort of a shelter.’ – NGO staff

34. Success ‘ New people brings new ideas’ - NGO staff ‘ We have enough technical experience from disaster response over many years and this includes shelter construction. – NGO staff

39. Post-Cyclone Sidr Family Shelter Construction in Bangladesh: A Documentation of Plans and Processes 2007-2009 Available in UNDP Bangladesh website: http://www.undp.org.bd/projects/prodocs/DRF/Post-Cyclone Sidr Family Shelter Construction in BGD _Final version.pdf Thank You, Rumana Kabir, Bangladesh, 24 th January 2011 Email: rumanakabir2003@yahoo.co.uk