UN-Habitat Indonesia

26 Feb 2006 (No. 01 06)

Sector Facts

Editorial

Meetings

Next Meetings:

Monday, February 20 – No meeting

Monday, February 27, 10.00 AM
at Public Works Permukiman –
a presentation of
Jo Da Silva of Ove Arup,
a top British engineering company, on monitoring of sustainable building. On this meeting,
also the Unsyiah monitoring team is invited.

Monday, March 6
– To be confirmed :
Joint meeting watsan and shelter. (Confirmation awaited from BRR and Dara Johnston of Unicef). The meeting would
be held at the normal location, Public Works Permukiman

Friday, March 10,
10.00 AM
at Dinas Sosial
(the location will be reconfirmed) on training programmes for construction skills; this is a joint meeting with the livelihoods workgroup and chaired by the livelihoods workgroup. Any person working in your organisation on these issues is welcome. The meeting is fully bilingual.

Monday, March 13,
10.00AM –
Most likely regular meeting. To be confirmed later.

For any update, please contact Deepty Tiwari
at UN-Habitat (081534284756).

For Regular schedules, please click

Last workgroup meeting reports

6-2-06 report
Joint meeting with livelihoods

13-2-06 report
Meeting with FAO and ArCli

More meeting minutes

Monitoring

Milestones
A rapid poll on 13 Feb indicates that the housing starts are still running at 5,000 per month.

New Houses:
Pledged: 135,000
Under construction: 22,000
Finished:12,000
Finished June: 58,000

The full list: ML20Feb06

Please send your updates to BRR or UN-Habitat tito@unhabitat-indonesia.org

Quality Monitoring
PU-Unsyiah-UN-Habitat

Brief Summary

Unsyiah's report
CD-Rom available at
UN-Habitat starting March 1.

Please contact Zulfikar
at UN-Habita to collect the CD-Rom. Download here
a form declaring that your
organization will keep the
identity of respondents
confidential.

Information sharing was done last year through the Shelter Workgroup. This year, UN-Habitat will circulate news also through this bimonthly newsletter. In principle, you find summaries of discussions in recent shelter workgroup meetings and links to related documents. Other recent news and newsworthy documents are also linked. The sidebar links to recent statistics and routine reports.

Please contribute your own reports. We have a spotlight section with news on organizations, or the “recent issues” section for studies, evaluations, assessments and other documents which you find worth sharing.
The present newsletter collects items of shelter work group discussions so far this year. Soon, there should be no duplication any more with email messages with attached documents earlier sent individually via the shelter group email. This newsletter is to become the vehicle for these documents.

Bricks - Timber - Cement

UNDP/Accenture, FAO and ArCli discuss the problems and recommendations on the provision of building materials.

The issues in short :
Bricks of good quality will not be available

Timber shortages reflect the weaknesses both of the (non-existing) local timber market, and of the lack of procurement know-how among organizations
Cement-based alternatives are viable and can rely on small enterprises, but local rejection of “hot” houses made of concrete bricks is a worry.

Download file (PDF, 464 KB)

Recent Issues

BRR held its second Nias stakeholder meeting, in Gunung Sitoli, on Jan 17-18. Based on new surveys and the discussions of the shelter group, UN-Habitat produced a new assessment on needs, supply problems and issues of development in general.

Download file (PDF, 230 KB)

Government

BRR

BRR took on Waskita Karya, a large national state-owned contractor, as it had subcontracting Turkish Red Cross housing.

More detail

BRR-NIAS

Aceh Province

NIAS

Letter of BRR Nias head Willy Sabandar on 2 nd stakeholder meeting
follow-up

More detail

Partners

Spotlight: IOM
IOM keeps on building large numbers of its transitional housing with knock-down concrete elements. Thus far, IOM has built approximately 1,600 transitional houses in Aceh during ten months.

More detail...

UN-HABITAT
Press Release
Sheikh Khalifa City covers Merduati and Peulanggahan villages, which are some of those most affected tsunami areas in Banda Aceh. Aceh especially, is the province in Indonesia which most directly affected by the 2004 Indian ocean earthquake and tsunami.

More detail..

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