Permanent shelter
Practical Action
The Practical Action South Asia Approach
During the preparatory and planning phase, Practical Action;
o Provides assistance to adopt participatory tools assessment.
o Ensures the adoption of a disaster sensitive approach, through
awareness creation.
o Provides expertise in the field of disaster mitigation.
o Brings awareness among district authorities on how to develop
plans that reduce the future risk to vulnerable communities.
Situational analysis and risk assessment
The reconstruction of shelter and other
physical infrastructure needs to be based
on a situational analysis and risk
assessment. For example planning for
housing will need to look at any hazards of
the particular location, what kind of
resources and capacities people have to be
involved in the rebuilding, and what
designs are appropriate to cope with
disasters such as floods, droughts,
earthquakes etc.
Published by
Practical Action South
Asia
ISBN 955 9417 16 9
First published
December 2003
Planning for housing needs special focus
on the needs of women, disabled and the
elderly. The following checklists provide a
framework for undertaking a situational
analysis and risk assessment among
communities affected by disasters. For
further details refer to Gender
Dimensions in Disaster management: A
Guide for South Asia by Madhavi
Malagoda Ariyabandu and Maithree
Wickramasinghe (2003); an ITDG South
Asia Publication. (Available from Practical Action Publishing, UK ISBN 9781853396076)
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