Day 1 agenda

by 15th - 16th of November 2007 | Geneva | hosted by NRC

09:00 – 09:30

09:30 – 09:45

09:45 – 10:00

10:00 – 10:30

10:30 – 11:15

11:15 – 11:30

11:30 – 12:15

12:15 – 13:00

13:00 – 13:30

13:30 – 14:30

14:30 – 15:30

15:30 – 16:00

16:00 – 17:00

17:00 – 17:15

17:15 – 17:30

17:30

CARE, NRC, Shelter Centre

2. NFI standard setting project

by 15th - 16th of November 2007 | Geneva | hosted by NRC

Project overviewShelter Centre was asked by the Emergency Shelter Cluster (ESC) to support standard setting and climatic design

Shelter Centre is leading the development

Current partners include CARE, IFRC, NRC, UNHCR and UN/OCHA

Overview

Standards

NFI kits

Climatic guide

Questions

by 15th - 16th of November 2007 | Geneva | hosted by NRC

Overview

Standards

NFI kits

Climatic guide

Questions

1. Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is to derive a series of Emergency Shelter Cluster Standards for major shelter NFIs from existing agency specifications, list all specifications in a matrix, find commonalities and develop a range

Standard setting for most common NFIs

Blanket specification fromAgency 1

Blanket specification fromAgency 2

Blanket specification fromAgency 3

ESC STANDARD FOR BLANKETS

by 15th - 16th of November 2007 | Geneva | hosted by NRC

2. CARE International is to derive a series of ESC shelter NFI kits by researching how NFI kits are combined and distributed, and defining a series of core shelter NFI distribution packages

NFI kits

Overview

Standards

NFI kits

Climatic guide

Questions

by 15th - 16th of November 2007 | Geneva | hosted by NRC

3. Shelter Centre to integrate the NRC work and CARE work along with guidelines for distribution within different climatic zones

Climatic guidelines for NFI distributions

Overview

Standards

NFI kits

Climatic guide

Questions

Shelter Centre is consulting with the WASH cluster and other major agencies involved with NFIs in order to maximise impact and prevent duplication

by 15th - 16th of November 2007 | Geneva | hosted by NRC

Questions for the breakout group

Should standards be generated from the specifications of major agencies?

Should there be a distinction between shelter NFIs and others, such as WASH NFIs

What defines a shelter NFI?

Overview

Standards

NFI kits

Climatic guide

Questions

A longer introduction will be given to start each group.Then participants will be asked what they would like to discuss