Shelter Training, Shelter Library and Shelter Community

1. Shelter Training, Shelter Library and Shelter Community Shelter Centre

2. Shelter Library, Training and Community • A new, integrated web platform providing: • Shelter Library improved • Shelter Training revised • Shelter Community new • As well as: • latest sector news new • sector events new • project updates new

3. Current, proof-of-concept site The current site is a proof-of-concept for: Shelter Library Shelter Training In 2007, Shelter Centre’s online services received over20,000 hits, from 171 countries

4. The new site

5. The new site provides: 1. Free-to-use materials supporting Shelter Training 7. Latest sector news, by country 2. Information on previous and upcoming Shelter Meetings 6. locate members of the Shelter Community 3. Upcoming events relevant to the sector 5. Most popular resources in Shelter Library 4. Latest project updates from the sector

6. Latest sector news relevant to you News will search all appropriate news sources for news belonging to the humanitarian shelter sector News is combined and filtered for shelter from sources including: • AlertNet • BBC • IRIN • ReliefWeb • LogCluster.org Select a country to filter news related to the country

7. Events calendar • Events is a calendar of all events relevant to the sector, such as: • regional trainings, such as the event at the Auroville Earth Institute, Pondicherry, India • sector meetings, such as IASC cluster meetings, UK shelter forum and the Shelter Meeting • project review meetings, such as the review process for the timber guidelines

8. Projects listing for the sector • Sign up to review or receive updates on sector projects, such as: • peer review meetings such as the Field Edition of Transitional Settlement and Reconstruction After Natural Disasters (UN, 2008) and • the guidelines on asbestos removal, under development by ProAct • Also, propose new projects and identify collaborators and support

9. Shelter Library Shelter Library will consist on a compilation of digital copies of the relevant publications related to the shelter sector. Shelter Library will suggest related publications, training and events, based upon your search

10. Shelter Library Put the feedback forms in the box, or return them to a volunteer! or What other materials or resources would improve the usefulness of this service?

11. Shelter Training • Shelter Training is designed for people to adapt the materials themselves in the field using a: • modular approach • image library • diagram library • template participants manual • Shelter Training is consistent with: • ESC Type C Technical Specialists training workshop • IFRC Shelter Technical Training

12. Shelter Training To facilitate training events, the following resources will be available on the Shelter Centre web site for easy modification, sharing and use: Diagram library Exercises Expectations forms Image library Presentations

13. Shelter Training Put the feedback forms in the box, or return them to a volunteer! or What other materials or resources would improve the usefulness of this service?

14. Shelter Community • Shelter Centre undertook user surveys to determine the sector’s requirements • You wanted a service that allows you to: • locate other shelter specialists near you • find jobs • find shelter specialists Shelter Centre has unified all these requirements, and named it Shelter Community

15. 1. locate other shelter specialists If the user wants, the system will automatically place the user on a map This will allow other users to know where you are, if you let them, and you can identify users near you This also means you can see news and information relevant to your country or region

16. 2. find jobs As part of Shelter Community, the Register will allow users to post details such as experience and availability This means the sectorknows who is availablewhere in preparing a response All that is required is to fill out your details through the online registration form

17. 3. find shelter specialists Similarly, employers can post jobs relevant to the sector, or search the Register of users to find suitable candidates for their needs

18. My Library Users will also be able to create their own personal libraries Allowing them to upload documents, and share them with other users

19. Shelter Community Put the feedback forms in the box, or return them to a volunteer! or Would you like to test and feed back on the preliminary version of this web site before it is launched? Would you like your profile to be preloaded into Shelter Community? You will receive an email with your password

20. Current status and next steps  Build finished Data migration complete Internal testing External testing Launch of new web site  July/Aug Sept/Oct SM08b

21. Shelter Meeting 08b:agree dates and format Shelter Centre

22. Training, workshops and other events At previous Shelter Meetings, participants expressed interest in the following events:  1. training events 2. tents and NFIs exhibition workshop 3. project orientated collaboration between humanitarian and academic communities SM08b? SM09?

23. Shelter NFI and household NFI workshop Put the feedback forms in the box, or return them to a volunteer! or Do you think this workshop would be valuable? What should be the workshop format? Should there be presentations from manufacturers and suppliers?

24. Shelter NFI and household NFI workshop Put the feedback forms in the box, or return them to a volunteer! or How should the event be structured?

25. Week of Shelter Meeting 08b Proposed schedule for days preceding Shelter Meeting 08b

26. SM08b dates Please consult your agendas…

27. SM08b format and content Put the feedback forms in the box, or return them to a volunteer! or What themes should SM08b explore? Which recent/ongoing responses should be discussed? Who would like to give a presentation? Are the breakout groups useful?