Fourth peer review - Washington DC, USA

21th May 2008

The Fourth peer review was hosted by USAID /OFDA, InterAction and Habitat for Humanity

Download the minutes from this meeting, which include a revision of the timber principles in the April 2008 draft of the guide

Third peer review - Nairobi, Kenya

9th May 2008

The third peer review was hosted by Habitat for Humanity, Kenya and attended by 16 participants.

Download the minutes from this meeting, which include the revision of the timber principles in the April 2008 draft of the guide.

Workshop - Bangladesh

7th February 2008

The Bangladesh workshop was held in Barisal and hosted by IFRC.

The workshop provided a forum to discuss
timber procurement and use issues during the emergency in Bangladesh.

• Session plans and organisational notes for the running of a workshop on timber (200kb)
• Timber workshop draft report - shelter working group, Baraisal, Bangladesh (400Kb)

Second peer review - London, UK

11th January 2008

The second peer review was attended by 26 participants and was part of the third UK Shelter Forum. The event was hosted by CARE International.

Download the minutes from this meeting.

First peer review - Yogyakarta, Indonesia

29th November 2007

The review was attended by over 30 attendees including
representatives from IFRC, national Red Cross societies (including
Indonesia, E. Timor, Papua and the Philippines), Care, Oxfam, WWF, IOM,
Caritas, PPUK, Muslim Aid, and UGM university.

Download the minutes from this meeting

About peer reviews

• The peer reviews are an opportunity to discuss the development of the timber guidelines and comment on drafts.
• Participants or their organisations must pay for their own travel and accommodation costs for all peer reviews.
• All the work on humanitarian timber is aimed at assisting
  humanitarian organisations to improve their emergency construction
  responses.
• Participant reviews of the guidelines are assumed to be voluntary
  and no payment will be made for contributions unless individuals are
  specifically asked to write significant parts of the guidelines.
• Invited representatives of private firms or individual consultants can attend in a voluntary knowledge-sharing capacity.
• All applications to attend a peer review will be reviewed by the
  peer review organisers before being accepted. You will be contacted
  individually to confirm the status of your application.