SHELTER & SMC
SHELTER & SMC
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This sector aims to alleviate the suffering of the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) protecting their dignity by providing them the urgently required humanitarian assistance.
 
Goal
Through this sector, ADO aims to provide appropriate and safe shelter for the Internally displaced people from the most vulnerable people in order to alleviate their suffering and protect their dignity. It also aims to manage IDP sites assisting them in improving their displacement conditions.

Methodology
Building transitional shelter units for the IDPs.
Distribution of emergency shelter kits, non-food items and clothes to survive the winter.
Evaluating, coordinating displaced communities and managing humanitarian interventions to avoid duplication and to ensure that no one is deprived of assistance.
Abs Development Organization (ADO) has played a pioneering role in assisting IDPs with safe, dignified, appropriate living conditions, and easy access to essential services. Both, in partnership with UNHCR, it started working in shelter and CCCM activities, both, on its own initiative and in collaboration with UNHCR. Shelter and CCCM activities continued thus to be implemented in a number of projects. Approximately 5,200 transitional shelters were completed in partnership with UNHCR and OCHA. ADO has also established the Camp Management Manual in participation with the cluster in the design work for the transitional shelter from the local materials in Tehama. ADO reached 580,785 male and female beneficiaries benefited from 5,500 transitional shelters as of April 2020. As part of the Shelter sector activities and in coordination with shelter partners working in the same areas, ADO continues to provide monthly rental subsidies for 25 HHs up to the present.
ADO has been one of the most active members in the Shelter Cluster since 2017. It implemented the 1st CCCM Project in Yemen in Hajjah in 2018.  ADO has led AAP TWiG and Shelter Options TWiG for two years duration between 2017 – 2018. Since 2016 in particular, ADO has accumulated various technical expertise in Shelter including (TS, ESKS, NFIs, CCCM, Winterization support, rental subsidies and so on…)


Achievements:

  • Planning, managing and monitoring 5,700 transitional shelters for 580,785 beneficiaries in Abs and Hayran districts of Hajja Governorate;
  • Developing of sustainable Shelter designs that are meeting IDPs needs meanwhile, following Tahama traditional style; Made of clutter materials.
  • In cooperation with the SCMCHA, developing Accountability Manual along with SOPs pertinent to the community committees’ selection until they were released;
  • The active contribution in enabling the IDPs to be responsible for the shelter and camp management, protection and improvement.
  • Distributing of more than 2500 NFIs for the IDPs in Abs IDP sites between 2018 – 2019.
  • Managing 189 IDP sites in Hajja Governorate under CCCM during 2015-2019; funded by UNHCR and then voluntary during 2020.

Timeline

2023
Re-Habilitation of buildings - Self_Funding

Rehabilitation buildings for IDPs HHs in Abs district of Hajja Governorate

2023
Rental subsidies/ Self Funding .

Currently ADO’s assistance to IDPs is mainly focusing on Cash for Rental activities. This assistance is a form of basic financial aid that offers vulnerable households renting a safe shelter
for a limited period of time. This short-term solution allows IDPs to have access to adequate and dignified housing until they
can find a dependable and sustainable source of income in Abs district of Hajja Governorate. 

2018 - 2023
Rental subsidies/ Self Funding .

Currently, ADO assistance to IDPs is mainly in the form of Rental subsidies through which vulnerable households are offered to rent a temporarily safe shelter. This short-term solution allows IDPs to have access to adequate and dignified housing until they can find a dependable and sustainable source of income. 

2018 - 2019
Hajjah response

Assessment and monitoring of shelter units for vulnerable IDPs in Hajjah; Funded by the UNHCR

2018 - 2019
Winterization support

Winterization support for families affected by the ongoing conflict in Amanat Al Asimah, Dhamar, and Hajjah; Funded by the UNOCHA/ YHF

2017 - 2018
shelter response

Integrated health, WASH and shelter response for vulnerable IDPs in Hajjah (Abs and Hayran); Funded by the UNOCHA/YHF

2017
shelter units

Assessment and monitoring of shelter units for vulnerable IDPs in Hajjah; Funded by the UNHCR

2017
Emergency response

Distribution of emergency response (NFIs and shelter kits) in Hajjah; Funded by the IOM