UN-Habitat Indonesia

09 Mar 2006 (No. 02 06)

Sector Facts

Editorial

Meetings

Next Meetings:

Monday, March 13,
10.00 AM –
Joint Shelter and Livelihood at Dinas PU. Jl Pemancar no 5, Banda Aceh. The meeting is fully bilingual

For any update, please contact Muamar Vebry
at UN-Habitat .

For Regular schedules, please click

Last workgroup meeting reports

27-2-06 report
Joint meeting with livelihoods

More meeting minutes

Other Reports

District Coordination:
WatSan & Shelter

The Survey of Earthquake damaged Non Engineered Structure

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: 14,000
Finished February: 14,000
Finished June: 56,000

The full list: ML08March06

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

Quality Monitoring
Unsyiah-UN-Habitat

Brief Summary

Monitoring & Evaluation of Post-tsunami Permanent Housing in Aceh & Nias, 2nd Round

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

Please contact Zulfikar
at UN-Habitat 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.

Housing Halfway

By April 2006, housing construction may already be passing the 50% mark. It is time to change from a shelter strategy to a settlement development strategy.

The assessment of UN-Habitat is based on government surveys, but also on housing quality monitoring done by Syiah Kuala University in 3 kabupaten, Aceh Besar, Aceh Barat and Pidie.

Issues discussed are :

Most in temporary accommodation, within villages.
Needs : the difficult need groups start to show up.
Housing provision is half-way, and strategically no longer about shelter.
Moderate quality and reasonable satisfaction.
Materials shortages have not be the deciding bottleneck, but the supply system remains precarious.
Sufficient commitments, but only just from organizations with proven capacity.
Residential infrastructure : a monetary and organizational mismatch.
BRR : tinkering with new options.
Tents and transitional shelter : a pragmatic need remains.

Download file (PDF, 464 KB)

Recent Issues

Ove Arup, a leading British engineering company advised Muslim Aid on earthquake–resistant and sustainable building. Jo da Silva gave a presentation in Banda Aceh at the Shelter Work Group of 27 February.

Natural Hazards in Aceh Engineering Design Principals
By Jo da Silva and Ziggy Lubkowski

Beyond Survival after the tsunami in Sri Lanka
By Jo da Silva

Concerning the file size and time for downloading, we provide the presentation files on the CD-Rom. Please contact Diella at UN-Habitat to collect the CD-Rom.

Indonesia 's leading earthquake engineer, Teddy Boen, also published on article on construction in Aceh : he advises no to carelessly steer away from conventional building practices for residential building, but rather to invest in longer-term institutions.

Download file Building a Safer Aceh (PDF, 900 KB)

Organizations

Government

Aceh Province

NIAS

Needs for new housing in Nias have become clearer, but the main uncertainty remains the number of families which need assistance for repairs. Moreover, the commitments and the capacity-on-the-ground are too low. BRR Nias has just published its housing action plan.

More detail...

Download file BRR Nias Housing Policy (PDF, 300 KB)

Partners

Spotlight: Salvation Army
At the Club Habitat meeting of Wednesday, February 15, 2006, Unsyiah monitoring students recounted SALVATION ARMY's programme in Aceh barat as one of the best. The Salvation Army builds 473 houses, according to BRR-UN-Habitat data. It had a difficult start when in June 2005, 1800 worker hired by PT Waskita Karya went on strike.

More detail...

UN-HABITAT

Activities: Building Materials and Construction Technologies
These activities attempt to address the request to UN-HABITAT in the Habitat Agenda of "exchanging information on best practices and encouraging research activities on sustainable approaches and methods concerning building materials and construction technology".
The main activity undertaken is the preparation of an annotated UN-HABITAT bibliography on building materials and construction technologies. A selection of previously published material will be made available UN-HABITAT electronically in due course. For further information please click here

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