Lessons from 15 years of post-disaster shelter reconstruction projects in India
Tom Newby (CARE International)
Wednesday, 23 November 2016, 5pm to 6.30pm
Oxford Department of International Development, 3 Mansfield Road, Oxford, OX1 3TB
Hosted by Refugee Studies Centre
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© UNHCR/Roland Schoenbauer
RSC Public Seminar Series, Michaelmas term
Emergency Shelter and Forced Migration
Series convened by Tom Scott-Smith and Mark E. Breeze
This interdisciplinary seminar series examines the nature and challenges of emergency shelter in the context of forced migration. What are the key issues in the design and provision of shelters? What does better shelter mean and how can we get there? How can political dynamics be managed in the organization of camps and urban areas? What lessons emerge from over forty years practical work in the shelter sector? The speakers in this series include academics and practitioners from the fields of architecture, planning, anthropology, humanitarianism, and design.
The seminar series complements the forthcoming issue of Forced Migration Review on Emergency Shelter, to be published in 2017.
About the speaker
Tom Newby was appointed Head of Humanitarian at CARE International UK in 2016. He previously led CARE International’s Emergency Shelter Team, which is based at CARE International UK, since December 2013. He is a chartered structural engineer with significant private sector experience in the UK and USA, and worked in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake, managing shelter programmes for two different organisations. He has been a trustee of Engineers Without Borders UK for many years and led the organisation early in its history.
Podcast
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