Key Messages about Transitional Shelter Like all successful innovations, Transitional Shelter combines; Product: Process: Position: Paradigm: A family shelter that will last for the duration of reconstruction, which can take 2 to 5 years. Incremental upgrading from plastic sheeting to local materials. “Repositioning tents” as part of durable solutions; and as reloadable semi-permanent buildings. Recognising that reconstruction starts on Day 2, and not as a subsequent and sequential phase.
