Humanitarian timber
by jona project supported by IFRC, UN/OCHA and Care international
Rationale
Huge quantities of timber costing millions of dollars are consumed in humanitarian relief and reconstruction programmes. Poorly planned timber procurement can result in significant delays in responses to people’s needs, environmental degradation and organisational financial and operational inefficiency.
The 'humanitarian timber' project aims to develop a practical consensus-based field guide to help humanitarian workers with the use, specification and procurement of timber. The guide will focus on timber and provide additional information on bamboo, coconut timber and timber derivatives.
The guide will be published in late 2008. The guide has been reviewed at peer reviews and by email. we still welcome additional comments on the latest draft posted below. (please contact us with any comments that you have)
Below you will find the documents produced so far as part of the revision process (including peer review minutes).
Draft v3.0 (April 2008)
This is the third draft of "Timber as a construction material in humanitarian operations"
This draft replaces the original scoping study and earlier drafts
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Please send any comments you have to contact@humanitariantimber.org
Reviews
Peer Review 4 - Washington DC, 21 May 2008: The third peer review was attended by 14 participants and was hosted by USAID / OFDA, InterAction and Habitat For Humanity. [minutes]
Peer Review 3 - Nairobi, 9 May 2008: The third peer review was attended by 16 participants and was hosted by Habitat For Humanity, Kenya. [minutes]
Workshop 1- Baraisal Bangladesh, 7 February, 2008: Supported by IFRC, this workshop took the opportunity 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)
Peer Review 2 - London, 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. [minutes]
Peer Review 1 - Indonesia, November 2007: The review was attended by over 30 attendees from including IFRC, national red cross societies (including Indonesia, E. Timor, Papua and the phillipines), Care, Oxfam, WWF, IOM, Caritas, PPUK, Muslim Aid, and UGM university. [minutes]
Comment Summary Booklet
A 4-page edited summary of the main comments received on the original scoping study published in 2007. [CommentsBooklet_SUMMARY_20071107.pdf]