A review of the Emergency Shelter Cluster: Koshi Floods Emergency response, Nepal 2008

The aim of this review is to examine the deployment of the Emergency Shelter Cluster (ESC) to the Koshi Valley, Nepal, in 2008 by the International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC). The report’s primary focus is to identify lessons and provide recommendations on future shelter coordination by the Federation as well as assist the office in Nepal navigate its way through future shelter-coordination developments. Whilst including and reflecting the opinions of key stakeholders in the sector the report is not a general evaluation of the cluster response following the disaster but given how important the context is for the deployment and activities of the report does touch on key issues of the overall response.

The review draws on desk research, interviews and written communication with informants, and included a reasonably lengthy mission to both Kathmandu and the Koshi Valley itself.