Publications

(authored or co-authored)

• ShelterProjects.org. Website with over 200 case studies and more than 500 direct contributors
• IOM emergency manual, shelter - includes logistics manaul. IOM 2018
• IOM and shelter - website, IOM 2018
• Distribution: Shelter materials, NFI & Cash. Guidance to reduce the risk of Gender Based Violence, IOM 2018
• Transitional shelter: eight designs, IFRC 2011
• Site planning: guidance to reduce the risk of GBV, IFRC 2011
• IFRC shelter kit, IFRC 2010
• WFP, cash and Vouchers Manual, WFP, 2009
  
• Timber as a Construction Material in Humanitarian Responses, OCHA, IFRC, CARE International, 2009 (1.5Mb)
• Selecting NFIs For shelter, IASC Emergency shelter cluster, December 2008 (2.2Mb).
• Plastic sheeting: Oxfam, IFRC, A guide to the use and procurement of plastic sheeting in humanitarian relief. March 2007 (1.4MB).
• Tents(1.8Mb)- a guide to the use and logistics of family tents in humanitarian relief - hard copies from: UN/OCHA - Logistics Support Unit
• Camp management toolkit,Camp management project, 2008 
• Transitional settlement: displaced populations (2.4mb) 2005

Tools

• 2020, Responding to Gender-Based Violence Disclosures - interactive online training developed with disaster ready:  Learn how to respond safely and ethically to disclosures of gender-based violence.  inline course with disaster ready: here
•  2020, Better distributions: interactive online training developed with disaster ready interactive training:    here
• 2019, MASC toolbox, a toolkit for European Union Civil protection to support responses to large scale and high impact crises. Was supported by linked trainings. Zip version here. (56Mb)

Selected Field documents and handouts

• 2012, Mali, Scénarios possibles et types de reponses, domaine abris au Mali
• 2012, Lebanon, DRAFT- shelter strategy summary
• 2011, Pakistan shelter cluster strategy, Shelter cluster (Pakistan) - floods
• 2011, Fire safety, training materials. Kenya, Somalia 2011 and (Pakistan, 2005) (260K).
• 2010, Pakistan shelter technical guidance, Shelter cluster (Pakistan) - floods
• 2010, Pakistan shelter strategy - illustrated, Shelter cluster (Pakistan) - floods
• 2010, Using plastic sheeting- handout, Shelter cluster (Pakistan) - floods english - Urdu (1.3Mb) Sindi (1.3Mb)
• 2010, Haiti Review of emergency shelter solutions in Haiti
• 2010,Haiti shelter technical guidance, Shelter cluster (Haiti) - Earthquake
• 2008, Fixing plastic sheet, handout, Myanmar - Languages - English, Myanmar
• 2007, Winterised tent evaluation, IFRC Jan 2007
• 2007, Latrines decommissioning handout - Pakistan Earthquake
• 2005, Winterisation technical guidelines for Pakistan Emergency shelter cluster (Pakistan) - S Asia earthquake
• 2005, tent winterisation training materials, Pakistan
• 2005, Construction of timber transitional shelters,training materials, Emergency shelter cluster (Pakistan) - S. Asia earthquake

Other

Selected academic publications.

• Kelman, I., J. Ashmore, E. Leon, and S. D’Urzo.  2011.  “From Research to Practice (and Vice Versa) for Post-disaster Settlement and Shelter”.  Environmental Hazards, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 262-278.

• Capacity building lessons from a decade of transitional settlement and shelter, International Journal of Strategic Property Management (2009) 13, 247–265 (Link only)
  
• Disaster mitigation lessons from "build back better" following the 6 December 2004 Tsunamis, Water and Urban Development Paradigms, 2009 (3Mb)
• Post-tsunami transitional settlement and shelter: field experience from Aceh and Sri Lanka, Humanitarian exchange no. 37, ODI, March 2007
• The Design of Tents and Camps for Displaced Persons in Extreme Climates,2004,In Building, Research and Information
• Diversity And adaptation of shelters in transitional settlements, 2003 Disasters.