Gender and humanitarian issues in transitional shelter processes: the cases of Syrian refugees and displaced communities by the earthquake in Haiti

Abstract

[Abstract] Today, emergency shelter for populations who have been displaced by armed conflicts, climate change and disaster management are among the most important priorities for Humanitarian Aid policies. However, such challenge is also one of the most complex humanitarian actions to carry out properly. And this happens in this way not only during the first few days of an emergency, but also and even more so during the reconstruction process. Since establishing a long lasting solution may stretch out over years this moment is crucial so that families can settle down in a safe place and return to a situation of relative normality in their own lives. In such an intervention, as we will see in this chapter, our central argument is based in how important it is the provision of adequate housing in the case of refugee women and girls, due to their particular situation of vulnerability.