1. Environmental Country Profiles to inform Shelter & Settlement programming
October 2018
IFRC. Victor Lacken. A man carries a pile of wood in Balukhali camp, Bangladesh. The camp houses people who have fled violence in neighbouring Rakhine State, Myanmar

2. Objective
To inform environmentally sustainable shelter programming by making key information about environmental considerations, impacts, concerns and opportunities relevant to shelter and settlements programming available and accessible to practitioners as a preparedness measure
Port au Prince, Haiti. Credit: Amanda George, 2010

3. Content 3 - 5 countries where IFRC/NS is lead of the Shelter Cluster
First selected: Bangladesh and Vanuatu
Information on the selected contexts relevant to shelter programming including:
Ecosystems and protected areas
Environmental degradation and climate change risks
Legal frameworks/laws/regulations
Natural resource practices
Shelter building practices and materials
Resources and local contacts
Sudan. Worsened environmental impacts due to bad choice of camp location. Credit: UN Environment

4. Request for inputs
Types of content to include: Based on your experience, what information would have been useful to you in previous shelter operations? What info was missing related to environmental decision making?
Specific expertise on Bangladesh and Vanuatu: Do you have country specific resources or expertise to share?

5. Options for Structure By scale of intervention (Sphere Standards)
By humanitarian programme cycle
By construction project cycle

6. Scale Macro level planning E.g. Settlement planning E.g.
Info on main hazards and risks
Regulatory and social requirements
Protected and ecologically sensitive areas
Settlement planning E.g.
Site selection, presence of toxic materials, proximity to hazards accessibility, fuel access
Shelter design e.g.
Building materials
Software and technical support
Household items
PROS
Fits with Sphere
More operational / implementation friendly
Coordination/implementation
CONS
Some overlap
Too constrained in categorization?
Some environmental subjects don’t fit into these categories

7. Programme cycle

8. Construction project cycle
Construction project cycle and material related intervention points
- WWF Building Materials Green Guide

9. Other ideas? More information: Mandy George (amandageorge@gmail.com)
Ela Serdaroglu
Leeanne Marshall