Sector Facts
Meetings
Monday, June 12th,
at 10.00
Shelter Working Group
– Agenda to be reconfirmed - at Dinas PU.
Jl Pemancar no 5, Banda Aceh. The meeting is fully bilingual
For any update, please contact
Deepty Tiwari at UN-Habitat.
For Regular schedules, please click.
Last Workgroup Meeting Reports
15-05-06
SWG Meeting Notes
SWG Discussion Items 09-05-2006
Meulaboh Shelter meeting
24-04-06
Shelter and Livelihood meeting Notes
Other Reports
Media Center Korrexa
Coordination Meeting
UNORC-
Humanitarian and Recovery Update Report
Minutes – BRR Timber Needs Workshop
List Certified companies by FSC
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Aceh Habitat Club
Schedule
Thursday, June 1st
Alue Naga case
Thursday, June 15th
Kajhu case
Thursday, June 29th
Kajhu case
Venue : UN-Habitat office
Jl T.M.Pahlawan No 3A, Banda Aceh.
For more information:
Aceh Institute
Contact: Nurul Kamal
Jl Sultan Iskandar Muda N
Punge Blang Cut Banda Aceh 23234
Phone/Fax : +62-651-41682, +62-651-7400185
email:
info@acehinstitute.org
Web:www.acehinstitute.org
Monitoring
Milestones
New Houses: Pledged: 128,000
Under construction: 22,000
Finished April: 21,000
Finished June: 35,000 (predictive)
The full list:
ML01June06
Please send your updates to BRR or UN-Habitat
yayan@unhabitat-indonesia.org
Quality Monitoring PU-Unsyiah-UN-Habitat
Brief Summary Early Results
Watsan Monitoring & Evaluation of Post-tsunami Permanent Housing in Aceh & Nias, 2nd Round
Accountability Index
Unsyiah's Report and Data CD-Rom available at UN-Habitat starting March 1.
Please contact
Zulfikar at UN-Habitat to collect the CD-Rom. Download here a form declaring that your organization will keep the identity of respondents confidential.
Document Ticker
UN-Habitat Library in Banda Aceh.
Books : 49
Reports
Soft Copy: 325
Hard Copy: 35
Maps :
Soft Copy: 194
Hard Copy: 12
Clipping, Press Release
and Brocchure : 142
If you can contribute your documents, please contact Yayan at
yayan@unhabitat-indonesia.org
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Yogyakarta and Aceh : Safe Building is a Must
Is it co-incidence ?
The previous newsletter, please click the following
 link
(http://www.unhabitatindonesia.org/newsletter/achive.htm) published a construction quality index for 35 organisations providing housing for 74 communities in Aceh. The first statement, based on monitoring done by Universitas Syiah Kuala was that much of the rebuilt housing was more or less in line with the Building Code, but very few exceeded it. The second statement was that communities are not sure whether their housing is now much safer. The correlation between feeling safer and construction quality was positive, but only marginally. For that reason, Architecture Clinic (with IAI, GTZ and Holcim Cement) and UN-Habitat has just published 30,000 comics to encourage communities to know more about safe building.
Incidentally, on May 18, Build Change and UN-Habitat also organized a workshop on the science and practice of sustainable and earthquake rebuilding. Build Change is an INGO working in Aceh to build knowledge and capacity for sustainable but also earthquake safe rebuilding. The well attended workshop highlighted that the science of earthquake safety is not easy :
- we know well how to design and build a reasonably safe core unit of 36 m2;
- we know that the vernacular, traditional brick and mortar house, confined with reasonably slender columns and beams, with all parts well anchored, built with good quality materials and put up with good craftsmanship, is often better than untested solutions with new materials;
- the Building Code luckily often exceeds safety standards, although the standard prescribes construction details which cannot always be executed by average craftsmen with locally available, inexpensive tools.
- there is little effort made to understand soil conditions when facing reconstruction pressures, notwithstanding bad soils wreck houses with conventional foundations in case of an earthquake.
- there is little leeway to make core units extendable for future family extensions, or for allowing extended family to occupy larger housing units.
Working with communities and small local contractors is clearly a trade-off. One cannot get the fastest production and the best technology, but at least one is using time-tested solutions on a large scale : communities rebuild in locations which probably were historically more stable than vacant locations (there must have been some collective memory on safe locations in Aceh); communities rebuild with technologies in which they have a basic trust.
But when rebuilding is done for 100,000 houses, this logic has limits : the poorest households were likely already on bad locations with bad, swampy soils; poorer people cannot easily afford safe building or safe building extensions; and experienced craftsmen and quality materials may not be available. Are we building reasonably safe core units today ? Probably yes. Will upcoming housing in resettlement locations and future housing extensions be safe ? Those questions remain open.
And why did vernacular housing in Yogyakarta collapse in large numbers –
unlike in Aceh and even in Nias ? An unexpected fault line ? An unexpectedly forceful ground acceleration, which would have damaged even those buildings designed for Indonesia’s strongest seismic zone? The Kobe failure : the collapse of wholly or partially timber constructions topped with heavy clay tiles rather than light tin sheets ? Or the practice in Java of mixing large amounts of lime into cement mortars ? Or, contrary to Aceh, a complete absence of know how on
safe building ?
What is clear is that the earthquake of Yogyakarta and the experience so far in Aceh and Nias has clearly laid out a safety agenda for Indonesia :
- the need for a nation-wide Building Code, and for institutions enforcing this Building Code;
- the need for community education on safe building;
- the need for safety provisions and escape or shelter preparedness for earthquakes and not just for tsunamis;
- the need for culturally sensitive approaches to safe settlement rebuilding : where do people find shelter, during an earthquake, in dense neighbourhoods with collapsing walls, in houses with many and easily collapsing terraces and porticos and in houses to which shaky rooms are added in line with family requirements.
- Safely constructing core units is limiting the liability of aid organisations. But that should not be the goal. Assisting communities to build up sustainable safety is the real task.
[Download : Teddy Boen's Article,
Building a Safer Aceh] (PDF, 900 KB)
Build Change’s Recommendations
Build Change has developed a set of design and construction guidelines for reinforced concrete confined brick masonry houses built in the Aceh reconstruction. The guidelines apply to single storey, simple buildings with lightweight timber truss roofs. The main goal of the guidelines is to improve the earthquake-resistance of this type of building that is so common in Aceh, at little or no cost and using locally sustainable skills and materials.
 The first chapter provides tips on improving the quality and workmanship of the brick masonry wall, such as soaking the bricks in clean water before building the wall to ensure a strong bond between the bricks. Other chapters to come focus on building configuration, connections between the reinforced concrete elements (columns and beams), reinforced concrete quality, and soils and foundations.
The guidelines are based on Build Change’s local and international staff experience designing and building similar types of structures before the tsunami, and an 11 house pilot project in Aceh Besar. During the pilot project, Build Change developed a detailed Construction Quality Checklist which can be adapted to other drawings upon request.
Did you find this guideline useful? Has it changed how you are building your houses or other buildings? Do you have any questions? If so, please contact Elizabeth Hausler at Build Change,
elizabeth@buildchange.org. Build Change is an INGO which has been working in Aceh for over a year. These guidelines were compiled with partial support and funding from Mercy Corps.
Download :
Earthquake-Resistant Design and Construction Guideline (Zip file : 2MB)
Organizations Government
BRR New Regulation Published
The Housing Implementation Unit of BRR released six new policies yesterday, with
the following regulation references :
BRR Sea-Transportation Policy
 BRR has established a policy that requires all materials for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Aceh and Nias to be moved by sea wherever possible. The policy is in affect as of May 15th 2006.
The primary purpose of this policy is to reduce the wear and tear on roads in the province of Aceh. The existing roads have not been constructed to a standard that will permit the continuous movement of heavy vehicles. Even the most cursory observation of the Medan-Banda Aceh road now reveals damage from such traffic.
This service is a cooperation between the Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Agency for Aceh and Nias (BRR), United Nations Recovery Coordinator and United Nations World Food Program (WFP)
Download :
BRR Sea-Transportation Policy
(PDF 268 KB)
Partners
Spotlight: GenAssist
GenAssist is a tsunami relief response program of the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC) in Aceh with a home office base in Canada. All employees are Indonesians, with more than 80% local Acehenese.
GenAssist/CRWRC, which has already opened a field office in Lhoong, was originally asked by the local village leaders to build about 400 houses in the Lhoong district in March 2005. To fulfill the request, GenAssist/CRWRC started with building one 42 m² type house in each of 6 villages: Umong Seuribee, Teungoh Geuntet, Baroh Geuntet, Baroh Blangmee, Teungoh Blangmee and Lamkuta Blangmee, as a pilot project. Along the way, many of the citizens begin to come back to their places of origins, so in August 2005 the numbers of houses escalated to 500 houses. Then in the end, GenAssist
agreed to build a total of 525 houses. There are now 216 completed,
occupied and handed over to the owners, with 90 units on going.
Another 90 units will be starting on June 6, 2006, which also be marked with the handing over of the previous 90 units newly finished. This will be the GenAssist's
5th. house handover ceremony.
At one of the the handover ceremonies, Mrs. Risnawati from Lamkuta Blang Mee who is now living in the new house said:
“I used to live in a very big house, and had everything I wanted, but now I have nothing, only my 2 sons. I’ve been living in a tent since tsunami. I had never thought nor even dreamt that I would be able to have a house again, because I could not afford to build one, no matter how small it is. All of my properties have disappeared in
the tsunami. I have no resources to support my living, but now I feel dignified, and feel like a human being again. I can now have such a beautiful house. Thank you GenAssist, and please pass my sincere thanks and respect to the donors of GenAssist.”
 GenAssist/CRWRC is working with communities to plan and build houses suitable to local circumstances. The house construction was designed according to local wisdom without neglecting the construction standard, and the model was designed by a Blangmee citizen named Januar, who lost his entire family: his wife and son together with his parents, grand mother and 3 other siblings. It also takes into consideration carefully that the house could be developed to meet the needs of its owner. The house building does not include paint, but it will be done by the house owner as a sign of community participation, as agreed through community’s consensus.
To finance the project of 500 houses, GenAssist/CRWRC uses CIDA matching funds of CAN $ 1,030,800, from the total project cost of CAN $ 2,575,933 (USD). The remaining 25 houses, will use GenAssist/CRWRC’s own resources. Another housing project in Mukim Gleebruek, sub district of Lhoong will soon start funded by Mennonite Central Committee (MCC).
CRWRC functions worldwide in 28 different countries, in varying capacities, and for tsunami relief is active in India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.
UN-Habitat
Aceh Habitat Club
 Housing and settlement reconstruction in Aceh and Nias has now been going on for one year. The Shelter Work Group is no longer the only meeting place for new-comers or a place of simple coordination, but now one of the many focal points discussing progress, gaps, performance, satisfaction and cross-cutting issues on housing and settlement re-development. There are now many more district work groups dealing with their own priority issues.
There are also a few meeting places not totally concentrating on “suppliers” headaches, meeting places which offer space for local stakeholder groups and civil society organizations.
ACEH HABITAT CLUB is offering such a meeting place. The issues are in relation to housing and governance :
- Rights and entitlements
- Legal certainty and clarity; respect for customary law
- Conflict resolution, legal redress and mediation
- Empowerment at local level
- Gender
- Sustainability
- Practical but important questions forthcoming are, for instance :
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Sustainable urban management
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Future new housing for non-tsunami victims
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Customary management of land in view of upcoming wide-spread land titling.
Aceh Habitat Club , a partnership between UN-Habitat and Aceh Institute,
is to be a local meeting point for government institutions, academics and aid organizations in Banda Aceh.
The forum is open to anybody and any organization.
The lead language is Bahasa Indonesia.
Download :
Aceh Habitat Club Discussion Program (PDF, 13 KB)
UN-Habitat Project Office
Jl. T.M Pahlawan No. 3A Banda Aceh NAD, Indonesia
Telp: +62 651 741 2525 / Fax: +62 651 25258
http://unhabitat-indonesia.org
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http://www.fukuoka.unhabitat.org
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http://www.unhabitat.org
More Documents
Housing & Settlements Information@UNIMS
Visit the housing page at the UNIMS website for contact addresses and archives of policy documents, data, meeting notes, reports and other sector informations.
Housing & Library@UN-Habitat Banda Aceh
UN-Habitat (Banda Aceh) collects documents on housing reconstruction.
Visit our catalogue. If you can contribute your documents, please contact Yayan at
yayan@unhabitat-indonesia.org
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