Learning from the Urban Transitional Shelter Response in Haiti

This handbook documents Catholic Relief Service’s experience in planning
and implementing its urban transitional shelter response in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
The following pages highlight challenges, successes and key aspects that could
be useful in future responses to urban disasters. This publication is a result of
site visits, studies of internal and external documentation and interviews with
beneficiaries and community members during the 2010–2012 post-earthquake
period. CRS is currently planning for permanent reconstruction programs in
Haiti and is scheduled to pilot such a program in May 2012.