Rapid Shelter Recovery Assistance To Communities Most Severely Hit By Floods Caused By Cyclones Wutip And Nari In Cambodia

The proposed shelter activities are a kick-off for UN-Habitat's project ‘Low cost resilient housing and alternative livelihoods' which is currently under formulation. The main goals of the project are to

(i) increase the resilience of the 2013 flood and storm affected people (short-term goal),

(ii) increase knowledge of communities throughout the country about the production and use of low cost, local, environmentally friendly and durable building materials, resilient housing concepts and disaster and climate change ‘safe' land use options (medium-term goal), and

(iii) have the MLMUPC develop a strategy for reducing disaster and climate risk of the urban and rural poor and vulnerable (planned to be achieved by including disaster and climate risk for housing and land use in the national spatial planning and/or housing policy) (long-term goal).

 UN-Habitat is currently discussing how to design resilient houses with Caritas Cambodia, the MLMUPC and the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM). The proposed action will allow UN-Habitat to show the NCDM and the MLMUPC that it is possible to quickly rebuild houses destroyed by disaster in a resilient and affordable way.