Shelter Projects 8th Edition. Case Studies of Humanitarian Shelter and Settlement Responses 2019-2020

2020 saw the outbreak of COVID-19, a global pandemic and crisis. In the face of this major public health emergency, global humanitarian shelter and settlement needs continued to increase, with over 30.7 million people being newly displaced by disasters and 11.2 million people being newly displaced by conflict and violence during 2020. Not only did assisting organizations need to adapt to new ways of working to reduce COVID-19 transmission risks, they were also faced by a world where needs continued to greatly exceed their capacities and resources to support. Perhaps more than ever, there was a clear need to learn from the past so that we can better respond in the future. Shelter Projects is a Global Shelter Cluster initiative to help address this gap. It has the primary goal of documenting and sharing lessons from past responses in order to improve current and future practice.