Development from Disaster
Owner-driven approaches to reconstruction for the 21st century
19-20 March 2009, South Bank University, London
This conference, organised by Practical Action, London South Bank University and the IFRC, looked at research findings and practical experience of owner-driven or people-centred reconstruction and analysed them in terms of their political, economic, social and cultural contexts. Participants discussed a number of tools that various agencies are already using in owner-driven reconstruction such as planning, participation, design, technologies, supplies/logistics, quality control and housing finance.
Practical Action and IFRC have now developed 10 tools as new Technical Briefs, which are available electronically on Practical Answers.
Materials from the conference can be downloaded below:
- Conference agenda (PDF, 141k)
- Introduction to the conference, by Michal Lyons and Graham Saunders (PDF, 655k)
- Lalith Lankatilleke: keynote speech (PDF, 1.4Mb)
- Case studies (PDF, 4.3Mb)
- Advocacy and Tools workshop notes (PDF, 1.5Mb)
Following on from the conference, several publicity materials will be produced that can help influence agencies to change their reconstruction policies or practices. A book on these experiences was published in 2010:
Building Back Better: Delivering people-centred housing reconstruction at scale (PDF, 2MB)
Michal Lyons and Theo Schildermann (eds)
This book asks whether large-scale reconstruction can be participatory and developmental; can rebuilding be truly people-centred, contributing to breaking the cycle of poverty and dependence? Building Back Better examines the context for reconstruction, and shows how developments in the fields of housing, participation and livelihoods have changed and enriched approaches to reconstruction.
This is the product of institutional collaboration between the IFRC, LSBU and Practical Action.
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