1. Humanitarian Response Review (HRR) & IASC Emergency Shelter Working Group Process Graham Saunders, CRS, on behalf of Sphere/ICVA/SCHR/InterAction

2. Humanitarian Response Review (HRR)
There is a common perception that humanitarian response does not always:
Meet the basic needs of affected populations in a timely fashion.
Respond comparably to different crisis.
Has sufficient human resource capacity to respond to the demands of concurrent major crises.
Act in a timely fashion once political agreements have been reached e.g. Darfur.
Elicit similar response from donors e.g. tsunami disaster vis-à-vis forgotten complex humanitarian emergencies .

3. Overview of HRR
Assess the overall humanitarian response capacity of UN, NGOs, and Red Cross/Red Crescent, and other key humanitarian actors, including IOM.
Identify possible gaps in expertise, management and resources of these capacities.
Recommend measures that need to be taken to address the shortcomings.
Develop a joint plan of action to improve the effectiveness and timeliness of the humanitarian response to emergencies. (By IASC)
Included review of new initiatives e.g. CERF, role of private sector etc.

4. Key recommendations
Improved coordination of international response system
Strengthen response capacities
Benchmarks to measure performance
Revised funding mechanisms to enable timely response
Included review of new initiatives e.g. CERF, role of private sector etc.

5. Sectoral Working Groups - Objectives
Define the role and responsibilities of a sectoral lead agency
Produce actionable recommendations for improving the predictability, speed and effectiveness of international humanitarian response in the sector
Recommend to the IASC Principals for decision which IASC agency/ies should be the sectoral lead agency on a global basis
Propose an implementation plan for short, medium and long term actionable recommendations and prepare options if there is no consensus
Included review of new initiatives e.g. CERF, role of private sector etc.

6. Sectoral Working Groups – Lead Agencies
Emergency shelter - UNHCR
Camp management - UNHCR
Water & sanitation - UNICEF
Nutrition/Therapeutic
and Supplementary Feeding - UNICEF
Health - WHO
Reintegration and Recovery - UNDP
Logistics - WFP
Emergency Telecommunications - WFP
Protection (including Return) - UNHCR
Included review of new initiatives e.g. CERF, role of private sector etc.

7. Emergency Shelter Working Group
How to improve humanitarian response in Emergency Shelter
Shelter strategies, staff resources, standards
Capacities and gaps
Personnel, NFIs, training
Response in selected existing emergencies
Non-UN actor involvement
NGOs, donors etc.
Cross-cutting issues
Gender, age, diversity, special needs, environment
Coordinated response planning and preparedness measures
Triggers, role throughoutOutstanding issues
project cycle
Included review of new initiatives e.g. CERF, role of private sector etc.

8. Emergency Shelter Working Group
Implementation Plan: Phased Introduction and Priority Recommendations for 2006
Develop Emergency Shelter Strategies and SOPs considering the different needs for both natural disaster and complex emergencies
Standard Setting
Shelter and related NFI stockpiles and information database
Staff for Emergency Shelter Response
Training
Risk Mapping
Information Management
Included review of new initiatives e.g. CERF, role of private sector etc.

9. Emergency Shelter Working Group
Outstanding issues
Staffing resources to work up expected outputs
Sharing of NFI/stockpiles etc.
Shelter and overlap between Emergency Shelter & Recovery Clusters
Funding for ESWG
Cluster-specific resource requirements
One emergency of 500,000 persons x 3 per year
Included review of new initiatives e.g. CERF, role of private sector etc.