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- Permanent Link:
- http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI13022797/00001
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- Summary:
- This report evaluates the impact and effectiveness of the coordination services provided by the IFRC-led Shelter Coordination Teams in response to the 2009 Indonesia earthquake. It identifies key lessons and recommendations to improve and inform future response. An earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale hit Tasikmalaya district in West Java on September 2nd. Two others on September 30th and October 1st off the coast of West Sumatra left hundreds of people injured and thousands without shelter. As the government of Indonesia announced that it welcomed any international assistance, the shelter cluster, under the leadership of the IFRC, took on the responsibility of coordinating emergency shelter. The responsibility for transitional or permanent shelter in West Java was later handed over to the UNDP. In West Sumatra, the IFRC led the shelter cluster for a longer period of time until it was handed over to the UNHABITAT-led group. While the destruction and needs in both West Java and West Sumatra were significant, the relatively low death toll and concentration of destruction in areas that were difficult to access resulted in low media interest, delayed donor funding, and agencies concentrating their efforts in West Sumatra. The main section of the report presents the general context of the shelter response, shelter cluster set-up and handover, as well as cluster activities focused on strategy, communications, information management, assessments, etc. Communications relied heavily on a well set up and active Google group that was emulated by other clusters. The most vocalized shortcoming of the Shelter Cluster’s work was its failure to simultaneously translate meetings and make key documents available in local languages from the outset, which effectively excluded key local interest groups and NGOs from engaging in the shelter cluster’s work. The preparation of the report required the review of available documents; interviews with key internal stakeholders in IFRC; field visits to Indonesia; and interviews with government and UN officials, as well as agencies participating in the emergency shelter cluster. In spite of room for improvement, the IFRC-led shelter cluster team was the only cluster activated on the ground, and key to the coordination of the West Java earthquake response, providing real value to cluster members, donors, and government. The most value-adding component of the inter-cluster coordination in West Sumatra was in Information Management, where the close collaboration between OCHA IM specialists and the Shelter Cluster IM came up with systems and training/tutoring that benefited all clusters. ( English,English )
- Subject:
- Shelters
- Citation/Reference:
- Rantanen, J. (2011). Shelter cluster review: 2009 Indonesia earthquakes. International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
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