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- Permanent Link:
- http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI13010924/00001
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- Summary:
- This document provides an overview of the challenges and problems facing Haiti in regards to providing shelter after the devastating earthquake in 2010. It outlines the three different phases of the provision of shelter after the disaster. The earthquake in Haiti is characterized as the largest urban disaster in modern history. One of the biggest challenges after the earthquake was to provide shelter to those who lost their houses. USAID worked with the international community to provide temporary shelter to those internally displaced persons most in need. This document outlines the three phases of USAID activity in providing shelter solutions, from emergency shelter to transitional shelter, and finally, permanent housing. In the first phase of temporary housing provision, waterproof, rip‐proof, and fire‐resistant plastic sheeting was used as weather‐resistant covering for roofs and walls of emergency shelters. This emergency shelter was provided to 1.5 million people. In the second phase, after immediate shelter needs were met, transitional shelters were designed to accelerate recovery and reconstruction, engaging affected populations in the incremental and longer‐term housing development process. For this USAID provided funding targeting an estimated 47,500 households. Transitional shelters were constructed using a mix of emergency shelter supplies combined with more robust items. These shelters could later be upgraded and expanded to create permanent housing. These shelters were designed to resist hurricane‐force winds, seismic risks, and heavy rainfall. In the third phase, provision of permanent housing, USAID promoted a two‐pronged shelter redevelopment approach: rebuild communities in and around Port‐au‐Prince, and develop other job centers in secondary cities to promote the broader economic development of Haiti. The document also discusses challenges faced in the construction of transitional shelters. Land availability and land tenure issues, transparency, equity, effective targeting of populations most in need, as well as ensuring the long‐term viability of communities are identified in the document as the major challenges in the resettlement of the displaced population. At the end, the document provides interim solutions to address these issues by focusing on individual neighborhoods, identifying families who’d like to depart spontaneous settlements for neighborhood shelter sites, and encouraging nearby landowners to allow transitional shelter construction on their plots. ( English,English,English )
- Subject:
- Temporary Shelters
- Scope and Content:
- Phase 1: Emergency shelter p. 1; Phase 2: Ttransitional shelter p.1; Phase 3: Permanent housing p.2; Challenges p.3; Interim solutions p.3; Figures: Figure 1: Plastic sheeting as emergency shelter p. 1; Figure 2: Utilizing plastic sheeting in transition to permanent shelter
- Citation/Reference:
- (2010). USAID’s approach to shelter in post-earthquake Haiti: providing security, dignity and work. United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
Record Information
- Source Institution:
- Florida International University
- Rights Management:
- Refer to main document/publisher for use rights.
- Resource Identifier:
- FI13010924
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