introduction to the humanitarian bamboo project, jogya consultative forum
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1. Intro to Humanitarian Bamboo project
2. Where did the project come from
3. What are the aims of the project
4. Identified project activities so far
5. Desired outcome from today’s workshop
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The Humanitarian Bamboo Project aims to:
“Provide tools and resources to humanitarian workers, to promote and facilitate the better use of Bamboo in humanitarian response”
“Identify and address the gaps in understanding that exist between
humanitarian workers and bamboo experts”
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Yogya earthquake response 75,000 bamboo t-shelters in
9 months, by Humanitarian sector,
2-3 times that number built by community
Global shelter cluster, IASC Recognition of potential but
lack of use by sector Humanitarian Timber project
Identified technical difference Oxfam putting their hand up
Initially fund Indonesian component of project
Emergency Shelter Cluster Coordinators, James Shepherd Brown and Neil Bowman with local community members in front of one of the earliest Bamboo T-shelters being built in the Yogya/Central Java earthquake response, by CHF in southern Imogiri, July 2006
INDONESIAN PHASE Website Technical briefs Compile national resources Develop forum Replicate all work into
Bahasa Indonesian Build other resources as
identified by local agencies
INTERNATIONAL PHASE Expand website
International linkages Global resource availability
maps? Training components? Other needs?
Test collated info in other countries
Forge global links
5Bangladesh bamboo structureYogyakarta bamboo structure
Develop Consultative advisory group for the HB project
Collate and summarize current knowledge about best practice in the use of bamboo in humanitarian response
Produce▪ Technical brief on how to use
bamboo in humanitarian response▪ www.humanitarianbamboo.org
Tools for use by humanitarian workers▪ Collate and clean up tools from
yogya response▪ Produce possible new tools
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Discussion space for humanitarian actors and bamboo specialists What worked and didn’t work in Jogja How can we do it better next time
Provide guidance to the HB Project on ways forward from here What tools, services, outcomes do
humanitarian organizations need
Provide concrete input to technical briefs How big, what format? Focused on what, Jointing? Clump management?
Provide guidance on “training” component of the project Provide Red R India with some guidance
Advisory forum to overview ongoing work7
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