Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar
Objectives: To appraise the service provided by the International Federation as shelter cluster coordinator to shelter cluster participants – Government, UN agencies, Red Cross Red Crescent Movement (Myanmar Red Cross, IFRC, ICRC as appropriate), NGOs both national and international, and other actors; to appraise the service provided by the shelter cluster as a whole to meeting the needs of the households affected by the disaster; to review and analyse the experience of the International Federation with respect to the establishment and operation of the Shelter Cluster, with a particular emphasis on lessons to be learnt for future operations; to provide recommendations with regard to the International Federation's leadership of future emergency shelter cluster coordination activities at both national and global levels; to examine if there were aspects of the Federation's cluster leadership which potentially might have or actually did compromise the mandate and principles of the Red Cross/Red Crescent.
