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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