No Family Without Shelter

#SDGAction40627

Description

To enable the provision of shelter and non-food items to 1 million people per year by 2015; who are affected by natural and manmade disasters.

Our sturdy green ShelterBoxes contain a family-sized tent, solar lights, water storage and purification equipment, thermal blankets and cooking utensils that protects people from the elements and provides them a safe space to recover from physical and emotional trauma and helps them start the process of creating a home. Our ShelterKits contain materials such as ropes, fixings and heavy-duty tarpaulins that can be used to make emergency shelters and repair damaged buildings.

Expected Impact

ShelterBox has 16 years’ experience in the delivery of shelter and non-food items. In the last five years, we have responded to 132 emergencies, in 103 countries enabling more than 86,000 families to start the process of recovery. Our goal is to provide 1 million people every year with shelter by 2025. 
 
We achieve this through the delivery of ShelterBoxes, ShelterKits and SchoolBoxes, in partnership with national and local organisations, affected communities and volunteers. A ‘ShelterBox’ contains equipment for a family and can include: a disaster-relief tent; water storage and purification equipment; blankets; mosquito nets; and cooking equipment; a tool kit; and children's packs. Using the ShelterBox as the unit of delivery has often made it possible for us to reach very remote areas and through the provision of a complete kit prevented the need for multi-agency intervention and logistics duplication. We keep a range of items in stock and respond according to need. We also stock the IFRC/UNHCR compliant family tent which is more appropriate for use in long-term displacement situations, such as planned refugee and IDP camps, and the IFRC Shelter Kit. 
 
Reduced risk of exposure: ShelterBox shelter provides lifesaving protection from wind, rain, snow and sun. ShelterBox provision tents and blankets provides emergency protection from the elements even during winter. 
 
Reduced risk of infections: ShelterBox tents can provide a sanitized environment for high-priority patients recovering from amputations or injuries and mothers with new born babies. Overcrowding is a risk factor for communicable diseases. Our tents reduce overcrowding and the associated risks. 
Access to clean water: We send either water purification tablets or Thirst Aid Station, a tough water purification system that can supply a family of 4 with safe water for a month. It purifies and removes 99.9% of pathogens. We send 15 litre water carriers, and a ShelterBox can be used to store up to 185 litres of water. 
 
Reduced risk of vector-borne diseases: We send chemically-treated mosquito nets which provide protection from mosquitoes which can transmit malaria and dengue fever. 
 
Reduced stress and anxiety –The provision of shelter kits enable households to build a safe and durable shelter on their homesites, reducing stress and anxiety. 
 
Tools to improve living conditions: A ShelterBox toolkit contains an axe, a hoe head, pliers, rope, saw and a hammer. These tools have helped families to improve their immediate environment and helped them rebuild their houses.

Capacity

ShelterBox Response Team composed of local and international volunteers, and staff provides affected families with training on the use of the kits and tools we provide. Aim at helping them effectively use the supplied materials in improving their lives, even after the SRTs have left their communities. We do this on our own and in coordination with other humanitarian actors in field. 
 
We also provide support in needs assessments and beneficiary selection. In Ecuador in April 2016, ShelterBox worked with two partners, Habitat for Humanity and Fundacion Progad (a local NGO). ShelterBox staff provided training on needs assessments, shelter construction and distribution methodologies to Progad staff, who cascaded this to community leaders. Our evaluation showed that this built community capacity by providing them with a focussed response to the disaster. Following Hurricane Mathew which hit Haiti in 2016 ShelterBox partnered with local community based organisations engaged in development projects. Community leaders were trained in undertaking needs assessments, selecting beneficiaries, distributing and providing training on the use of the Shelter Kit and collecting beneficiary data. This empowered leaders to manage the response to the disaster, supporting the government’s edict of Haitians helping Haitians.

Governed

ShelterBox has a collaborative approach to disaster relief, works partners around the world, and builds relationships with others to enhance the effectiveness of our response. Our strategic plan 2017-2019, outlines the importance of global partnerships through the creation and management of relevant and effective partnerships that support our strategic objectives. Our strategic plan targets include: recruitment of new affiliates, more rotary field engagement, and development of more key strategic partnerships. 
 
Local networks/partners: In Ecuador we worked with Fundacion Progad, in a project sponsored and supported by Habitat for Humanity. Staff and volunteers from ShelterBox defined the parameters by which beneficiaries were selected, and then in close collaboration with Fundacion Progad set about developing a training and distribution package that could be cascaded down to the community. Fundacion Progad connected with local action groups, whose representatives selected beneficiaries, organised and facilitated training, distributed aid and monitored the construction of shelters. Although guidance was provided by ShelterBox and Fundacion Progad, ultimately it was the affected community who owned and managed their own early. 
 
We have a close relationship with Rotary clubs worldwide and can contact Rotarians and their network of 35,000 clubs in 200 countries. ShelterBox has been the Rotary International’s only project partner in disaster relief since 2012. Since 2006 approximately 90% of our deployment have had Rotary support. In Thailand, the local Rotary network has provided our ShelterBox Response Teams with translators, domestic transport, and local contacts which have aided the speed of our response. 
 
Local/national governments: At ShelterBox we recognise that our role is to support local and national government’s response strategy. In almost every disaster location we engage with the local or national government. Following flooding in Colombia, we worked with the Colombian Government’s National Department for Disaster Prevention and Assistance (SNPAD). SNPAD provided information on the worst-affected areas, logistical support, and put our teams in contact with local mayors who assisted with the distributions. 
 
UN cluster system/inter-agency initiatives: Wherever possible we operate in the UN Cluster System with a focus on the Shelter Cluster, but with additional liaison with other cluster sectors for the maximum impact for beneficiaries. ShelterBox have committed staff to undergo the required training to support the Shelter Cluster as Cluster Coordinators, with staff seconding to IFRC to support the cluster during the response to flooding in Malawi in 2015, and to UNHCR in Iraq in response to conflict related displacement.

Partners

ShelterBox
ShelterBox Affiliates in Canada, US, South Africa, Hong Kong, Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Belux, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, Finland
Rotary International

SDGS & Targets

Goal 17

Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

17.1

Strengthen domestic resource mobilization, including through international support to developing countries, to improve domestic capacity for tax and other revenue collection

17.1.1

Total government revenue as a proportion of GDP, by source

17.1.2

Proportion of domestic budget funded by domestic taxes

17.2

Developed countries to implement fully their official development assistance commitments, including the commitment by many developed countries to achieve the target of 0.7 per cent of ODA/GNI to developing countries and 0.15 to 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries; ODA providers are encouraged to consider setting a target to provide at least 0.20 per cent of ODA/GNI to least developed countries

17.2.1

Net official development assistance, total and to least developed countries, as a proportion of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee donors’ gross national income (GNI)

17.3

Mobilize additional financial resources for developing countries from multiple sources

17.3.1

Additional financial resources mobilized for developing countries from multiple sources

17.3.2

Volume of remittances (in United States dollars) as a proportion of total GDP

17.4

Assist developing countries in attaining long-term debt sustainability through coordinated policies aimed at fostering debt financing, debt relief and debt restructuring, as appropriate, and address the external debt of highly indebted poor countries to reduce debt distress

17.4.1

Debt service as a proportion of exports of goods and services

17.5

Adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for least developed countries

17.5.1

Number of countries that adopt and implement investment promotion regimes for developing countries, including the least developed countries

17.6

Enhance North-South, South-South and triangular regional and international cooperation on and access to science, technology and innovation and enhance knowledge sharing on mutually agreed terms, including through improved coordination among existing mechanisms, in particular at the United Nations level, and through a global technology facilitation mechanism

17.6.1

Fixed broadband subscriptions per 100 inhabitants, by speed

17.7

Promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies to developing countries on favourable terms, including on concessional and preferential terms, as mutually agreed

17.7.1

Total amount of funding for developing countries to promote the development, transfer, dissemination and diffusion of environmentally sound technologies

17.8

Fully operationalize the technology bank and science, technology and innovation capacity-building mechanism for least developed countries by 2017 and enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology

17.8.1

Proportion of individuals using the Internet

17.9

Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South and triangular cooperation

17.9.1

Dollar value of financial and technical assistance (including through North-South, South‑South and triangular cooperation) committed to developing countries

17.10

Promote a universal, rules-based, open, non-discriminatory and equitable multilateral trading system under the World Trade Organization, including through the conclusion of negotiations under its Doha Development Agenda

17.10.1

Worldwide weighted tariff-average

17.11

Significantly increase the exports of developing countries, in particular with a view to doubling the least developed countries’ share of global exports by 2020

17.11.1

Developing countries’ and least developed countries’ share of global exports

17.12

Realize timely implementation of duty-free and quota-free market access on a lasting basis for all least developed countries, consistent with World Trade Organization decisions, including by ensuring that preferential rules of origin applicable to imports from least developed countries are transparent and simple, and contribute to facilitating market access

17.12.1

Weighted average tariffs faced by developing countries, least developed countries and small island developing States

17.13

Enhance global macroeconomic stability, including through policy coordination and policy coherence

17.13.1

Macroeconomic Dashboard

17.14

Enhance policy coherence for sustainable development

17.14.1

Number of countries with mechanisms in place to enhance policy coherence of sustainable development

17.15

Respect each country’s policy space and leadership to establish and implement policies for poverty eradication and sustainable development

17.15.1

Extent of use of country-owned results frameworks and planning tools by providers of development cooperation

17.16

Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries

17.16.1

Number of countries reporting progress in multi-stakeholder development effectiveness monitoring frameworks that support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals

17.17

Encourage and promote effective public, public-private and civil society partnerships, building on the experience and resourcing strategies of partnerships

17.17.1

Amount in United States dollars committed to public-private partnerships for infrastructure

17.18

By 2020, enhance capacity-building support to developing countries, including for least developed countries and small island developing States, to increase significantly the availability of high-quality, timely and reliable data disaggregated by income, gender, age, race, ethnicity, migratory status, disability, geographic location and other characteristics relevant in national contexts

17.18.1

Statistical capacity indicators

17.18.2

Number of countries that have national statistical legislation that complies with the Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics

17.18.3

Number of countries with a national statistical plan that is fully funded and under implementation, by source of funding

17.19

By 2030, build on existing initiatives to develop measurements of progress on sustainable development that complement gross domestic product, and support statistical capacity-building in developing countries

17.19.1

Dollar value of all resources made available to strengthen statistical capacity in developing countries

17.19.2

Proportion of countries that (a) have conducted at least one population and housing census in the last 10 years; and (b) have achieved 100 per cent birth registration and 80 per cent death registration

Goal 1

End poverty in all its forms everywhere

1.1

By 2030, eradicate extreme poverty for all people everywhere, currently measured as people living on less than $1.25 a day

1.1.1

Proportion of the population living below the international poverty line by sex, age, employment status and geographical location (urban/rural)

1.2

By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions

1.2.1

Proportion of population living below the national poverty line, by sex and age

1.2.2

Proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions

1.3

Implement nationally appropriate social protection systems and measures for all, including floors, and by 2030 achieve substantial coverage of the poor and the vulnerable

1.3.1

Proportion of population covered by social protection floors/systems, by sex, distinguishing children, unemployed persons, older persons, persons with disabilities, pregnant women, newborns, work-injury victims and the poor and the vulnerable

1.4

By 2030, ensure that all men and women, in particular the poor and the vulnerable, have equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance

1.4.1

Proportion of population living in households with access to basic services

1.4.2

Proportion of total adult population with secure tenure rights to land, (a) with legally recognized documentation, and (b) who perceive their rights to land as secure, by sex and by type of tenure

1.5

By 2030, build the resilience of the poor and those in vulnerable situations and reduce their exposure and vulnerability to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters

1.5.1

Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population

1.5.2

Direct economic loss attributed to disasters in relation to global gross domestic product (GDP)

1.5.3

Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030

1.5.4

Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies

1.a

Ensure significant mobilization of resources from a variety of sources, including through enhanced development cooperation, in order to provide adequate and predictable means for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, to implement programmes and policies to end poverty in all its dimensions

1.a.1

Total official development assistance grants from all donors that focus on poverty reduction as a share of the recipient country's gross national income

1.a.2

Proportion of total government spending on essential services (education, health and social protection)

1.b

Create sound policy frameworks at the national, regional and international levels, based on pro-poor and gender-sensitive development strategies, to support accelerated investment in poverty eradication actions

1.b.1

Pro-poor public social spending

Goal 13

Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

13.1

Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries

13.1.1

Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population

13.1.2

Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030

13.1.3

Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies

13.2

Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning

13.2.1

Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

13.2.2

Total greenhouse gas emissions per year

13.3

Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning

13.3.1

Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment

13.a

Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible

13.a.1

Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025

13.b

Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities

13.b.1

Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

SDG 14 targets covered