Shelter assistance

Targets newly displaced people and those living in camps.

1. Family tents
UNHCR provides emergency shelters in IDP and refugee camps. Tents are intended as a short-term solution; they usually require replacement after one year of use to ensure effective shelter and waterproofing.

2. Camp maintenance and expansion
Camps are temporary facility hosting IDPs and refugees.

3. Upgrade of collective shelters
Repair of existing collective shelters accommodating IDPs. Following detailed technical assessments of the damage, various repair works are conducted, such as for shared washing facilities, entrances, staircases, roofs, and pipes.

1. Damage house repair:
This covers repair of affected houses following detailed technical assessments of the specific damages. Such repairs can include structural repairs, electrical works (cabling, installation of lamps etc), and WASH works to the residential units, including the common areas.

2. Shelter material distribution and installation:
Doors, windows, electrical equipment, and water facilities at the household level, to make the house habitable again.

3. Cash for shelter:
UNHCR cash grant to do minor repairs for the houses according to technical assessment, to the family who desire cash modality more than in kind , and they have the capacity to do it according to the standards.

4. Cash for rent:
For families who are displaced in last resort shelter, but they are don’t have another option to provide permanent house, UNHCR can support with cash for rent for limited time schedule according to vulnerability criteria

Support to communal basic facilities is mainly provided in places where spontaneous self-organized return of IDPs and refugees is taking place. This aims to reduce the burden on the host communities, and to enhance resilience of both returnee and the host communities.

Examples of the restoration of communal basic facilities include minor repairs to schools, primary health care centres, civil registries, markets, sewage systems, water and irrigation systems, installation of solar streetlights, and removal of debris.