Shelter Needs Assessment

1. Shelter Needs Assessment • Demographics • Risks • Household activities • Materials and Design • Local Resources and constraints • Essential services and facilities • Social and Environmental impact • NFI needs

2. Interviews to date • Remaining Agencies • Manila • NGO and Agencies • IOM • Save • Care • Government • National mapping • Geographical group? • Donors • EC • Echo • UsAID • AusAID • Difid • etc • Albay • IOM • Care • Save • Agencies interviewed • Manila • UNDP • UN Habitat • IFRC • NNDC • Albay • Government • PNDC • Albay • Camarines Sur • Planning and Development • Housing • INGO and agencies • Oxfam GB • LNGO • CAS • Church groups • Scientologists • Little Sisters of Mary • CWC

3. Demographics • What we think we know • Up to 8Million people effected • 3-400,000 houses lost • ALBAY 100,000 families homeless • 10,000 to be relocated • 4500 currently in evacuation centre, to be moved to transitional camps • 70,000 Camarin Sur • What we think we don’t know • Background data • Population, poverty indicators • House vs household vs Family • Validated data • Consolidated and desegregated • Barangay breakdown • Current Shelter activity • Host families • Rebuilt or rebuilding • Assisted

4. Risks • Immediate risks • Increased ARI and other diseases due to exposure and poor living standards • Inability to return to livelihoods • Potential risks • Build back worse • Disease spread • Risks from current provision • Insufficient assistance • Not typhoon resistant • Below sphere standards • No training • Who are the most vulnerable and what are their risks • The poor, injured, women headed households • Social overload on host families • Urban landless • Potential further risk • Loss of livelihoods • Future calamity • Landslides • Tropical storms

5. Inside Sleep (protection issue) Work Social Outside Cooking Washing & toilet River Well Outhouse (Protection issue) Play Work Social Inside Cooking Washroom & toilet Sleep (protection issue) Work Social Outside Play Work Social Household activities Poor (rural and urban) Middleclass (urban?)

6. General Small, single story structures, 20-30m2 Floor On ground Dirt floor Concrete when affordable Walls Timber frame Some bamboo Roof Nipa roof Graduating to CGI when affordable Window and doors Makeshift Timber when affordable General Small to medium structures, 20-50m2 Floor On ground Concrete 1 or 2 floors (2nd floor concrete or timber) Walls Timber frame Concrete and brik Roof CGI roofing Window and doors Timber Aluminium when affordable Materials and Design Poor (rural and urban) Middleclass (urban?)

7. Physical/Environmental Construction materials Timber Lots of fallen coconut Bamboo Seems like good supply (needs to be confirmed Plenty of Rocks, gravel and river sand for Concrete and foundations Labour Plentiful but low skills and lack of knowledge on Typhoon resistant construction Supply chain Good local supply chain Good access to Manila Free transport by IOM Social High background poverty Social structures largely undamaged Strong church/NGO networks Strong PDCC network Bayanihan system Financial EC 2 million, Red Cross 6-8Million?, Oxfam GBP350,000, IOM?, Care?, Save? LNGO? Gov funds For Relocation Shelter Assistance kits Environmental Tropical area Low Mass, high eves, steep pitch roof Extremely broad effected area 22 Provinces Difficult to access, asses, let alone respond Remote Islands and mountain areas Timber deforestation Coco milling will require training and has potential to cause increased deforestation May require Government approval LAND for relocation Social Relocation may effect existing social structures and power balances Corruption in both public and private sector Financial Extremely Limited funds Potential that Governments may not be transferable to next financial year Local Resources and constraints Resources Constraints

8. Essential services and facilities Services Facilities Electricity • Remains cut off in many areas • Livelihoods and security implications? Phone • High usage of Mobile phones • No Network in some areas Transport • Public vehicles, boats, aircraft and private hire vehicles all still available Water • ???? Government Services • PDCC highly operative Education • Many schools damaged • Many being used as relocation centres Health • Many schools damaged • Many being used as relocation centres Roads and bridges • Major roads open • Many minor roads close or access by motorbike only

9. Shelter related NFI & Cross Cluster needs Shelter related NFI Related cluster Household kits • Outstanding need • Particularly for relocation families Sleeping • Outstanding need • Particularly for relocation families Hygiene • Outstanding need • Particularly for relocation families Wat-San • Essential Core houses tie in with Watsan activities

10. Summary • Demographics • Desegregated data need to be gathered and validated • Risk • Continued risk of disease, Typhoons and landslides • Shelter Usage • Shelter mainly for rain and sleeping • Materials and Design • Predominance of timber framing and tin roofing, poor construction skills • Resources and constraints • High availability of Coco timber, bamboo and Nipa may face regional unavailability, (IOM free tranport) • Essential services and facilities • Transportation remains a concern • Pressure to reopen schools • Shelter related NFI`s and related clusters • Remaining NFI need • Watsan linkage essential