Shelter response profiles (SRP): Impact study: Real Impact, limits and food for thoughts for the future

Within the framework of its partnership and its involvement in the "self-recovery" working group of the GSC, CRAterre and its partners have been working for several years to develop and disseminate a method to identify and enhance the value of local construction cultures para-disaster, if necessary by revisiting them, in order to propose improvements during reconstruction or development projects in terms of housing.This has resulted in the launch,first and foremost with IFRC2,and further with other international and national agencies, of a series of highly innovative documents, the shelter response profile(SRP), initially called baseline data on local building culture & coping strategy. They provide baseline data on building cultures and local socio-cultural strategies for resilience that are useful to consider when designing and implementing shelterand disaster risk reduction programs.The objective is to help all actors to identify and raise awareness among their partners of the relevance, potential and limitations of local construction methods so that they can be better taken into account in projects, particularly in post-disaster recovery / reconstruction. This profileis intended to be a working basis for the elaboration of strategies specific to each project taking into account the local potential as much as possible.After the success and limitationsof the first profilein Fijiin 2016, several profileswere subsequently produced at therequest of the GlobalShelter Cluster through in-country shelter clusterssetup to respond to natural or human-made crises or disasters: Ethiopia, DRC, Haiti, Bangladesh, Ecuador, etc.