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IFRC Shelter Coordination Workshop Environmental Issues

IFRC Shelter Coordination Workshop Environmental Issues. C. Kelly Env. Reference Group ProAct Network. Focus. Role of Environment Advisor SWOT Issues and Challenges. Haiti Floods. Shelter Env. Advisor Field Test Gaps in Shelter Cluster operations

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IFRC Shelter Coordination Workshop Environmental Issues

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  1. IFRC Shelter Coordination Workshop Environmental Issues C. Kelly Env. Reference Group ProAct Network

  2. Focus • Role of Environment Advisor • SWOT • Issues and Challenges

  3. Haiti Floods • Shelter Env. Advisor Field Test • Gaps in Shelter Cluster operations • Difference between general technical support and environmental technical support not clear • Weak local capacity to support or sustain work environmental focus • Some follow-up

  4. West Sumatra Earthquake • Good Cluster Support • Local environmental awareness and capacity • Focus on transitional and permanent shelter • Takes time to understand context and build relationships • Late & short deployment; no time for follow through

  5. Haiti Earthquake • Good Cluster structure for engagement • UNEP present & high salience of environmental issues (USAID REA, …) • Difficulty in coordination across sectors (e.g., shelter and camp management) give size of response • Technical support demands and accomplishments • Lots of small initiatives; no big ones • Limited local capacity to continue activities @ end of (emergency) Cluster

  6. Pakistan Floods • General and Shelter-Relevant support provided • Gov and Env. NGO engagement (WWF funding) • Interest by some donors on environmental issues • Focus on shelter & environmental impact • Difficulty for non-humanitarian actor to engage humanitarian actors/Clusters • GRRT Training incl. shelter issues • Environmental Advisor hired locally by WWF for follow-up

  7. Issues and Challenges • To have or to not have an Environment Advisor? (funding, funding, funding, administration, timing, skills needed, …) • To focus on one issue or many? (how thin can you spread the butter…) • Follow through and presence of local environmental support capacities (flash in the pan or sustained recovery?) • Environment Advisor as coordinator or technical support advisor (Should NGOs hire their on technical support on environmental issues?) • Assessing impact (which can be years later)

  8. IFRC Shelter Coordination Workshop Environmental IssuesThank You C. Kelly Env. Reference Group ProAct Network

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