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The partnership project will support UN-Habitat over two
(2) years in developing guidelines to promoting compliance to safer
construction strategies for decision-makers that will also contribute to wider
learning via the World Urban Campaign and policy ideas for the World
Humanitarian Summit (Istanbul, May 2016) as well as Habitat III in October 2016
in Quito Ecuador.
To guide the project a steering group will be
established involving UN-Habitat and AXA. In addition, a review group, composed
of selected experts, will be created to provide comments and inputs on the
documents, in addition to participation in expert group meetings.
Different already highly recognized global expert
sectoral venues will be used in order to consult, discuss and disseminate
findings and products. Some of
them are; the Barcelona Resilience Week (March 2016, Barcelona), the World
Humanitarian Summit (May 2016 Istanbul), the UK Shelter Forum (June 2016
London), Habitat III (October 2016, Quito), the IASC Global Shelter Cluster
meeting (November 2016, Geneva) and others.
Guidelines and Toolkit for Decision-Makers on
Promoting Compliance to Safer Construction
UN-Habitat experience in supporting (re)construction
after crises situations is based on enhancing
compliance to risk resistant
building techniques through a wide range of activities. From the supply
side, it includes strengthening know how and technical capacity in the
construction sector including skills of construction actors and the quality of
building materials through training, outreach programmes and capacity building.
From the demand side, it includes increasing understanding of risks and safer
construction through awareness raising, participatory approaches and
information campaigns. These activities are complemented with incentives
mechanisms for promoting compliance together with instruments for measuring
resilience and monitoring progress towards building resilient construction for
key players of risk management, including private sector and insurance
companies. The approach is based on system improvements designed to achieve
scale in the short term, through the increased volume of construction activity
post crises, and sustainability in the longer term, through the mainstreaming
of better practices.
