On sept 8th 2022, during the 2022 IHIP general assembly of members, Pieter Mattelaer was elected as teh new presidenf of IHIP.

Pieter Mattelaer is the deputy group leader of the Project Portfolio Management group at CERN. The group is responsible for the major construction projects at CERN in the fields of civil engineering and buildings. As an early adopter of the latest tools and processes used in the construction sector, he will advise IHIP on the added value they can bring to the humanitarian sector.

IHIP would like to also express warm thanks for its long term support to the work of the association  to the previous president : Mr Thomas Nydegger.

The IHIP call to action inviting project owners to try the IHIP conditions of particular application has been circulated yesterday both to :

Global Shelter Cluster announcement

N° 4 – February 2022

The interactive report of the GSC 2021 Annual Event, which was held between May and October 2021, has been published on 31st January 2022.

This report includes the overviews of the opening, the thematic sessions, the working group and GSC’s communities of practice, the country-level presentations, and the data on participation and satisfaction and more. The recordings of the sessions are available as well. 

Enjoy browsing through the different sections in the interactive story map by clicking below:

GSC Online Annual Meeting 2021 Interactive Report

Move to “Open Sessions Overview” and select Session 3

Discover the 1st edition of the Harmonized Conditions Of Particular Application to FIDIC SHORT FORM of Contract for Shelter Construction Works. This is the result of the work done by IHIP Shelter contract committe consolidating the results of the surveys circulated to the Global Shelter Cluster members and to the Shelter Sector in December 2020 and March 2021.

26 improvements have been identified by the committee to derisk SHELTER projects during the humanitarain response:

BETTER CONTRACT MANAGEMENT ( 9 Improvements)
IMPROVED RISK ALLOCATION (10 Improvements)
IMPROVED PROCUREMENT (7 Improvements)

MORE DETAILS AND DOWNLOAD HERE

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The International Humanitarian Infrastructure Platform (IHIP) extends special thanks to the following members of its Shelter Contract Committee:

 Ammar Al-Mahdawi , Senior Technical Shelter Officer – UNHCR
 François Baillon, Managing Director – IHIP
 Kitty Villani-Cohen, International Consultant ARCBLUE ASIA – Vice Chair FIDIC IFI Committee & Member of DRBF
 Richard Dewhurst, Doctoral Researcher – Loughborough University
 Philipp Huebner, Construction Project Manager – ICRC Water & Habitat
 Wamidh Shammas , Contracts Specialist – UNICEF
 Liz Palmer, Global Construction Lead – Save the Children International
 Alexander Van Leersum , Process manager – BuildtoImpact

IHIP would like to thanks Save the Children International for sharing their construction contract templates with IHIP Shelter Contract Committee. IHIP would like to thank the Global Shelter Cluster coordination team, its members as well as the entire contributors to the surveys which played a major role to identify issues addressed in this document. This document has been established by IHIP with the financial support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and inputs from the International Committee of the Red Cross.