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.

Be an early adopter of the improved contracts for construction in the WASH sector

Be part of the community of practitioners that are testing the new harmonised conditions of contract for construction for the humanitarian WASH sector.

In November 2020 the International Humanitarian Infrastructure Platform (IHIP www.ihip.earth) released the first edition of the harmonised conditions of contract for construction for the WASH sector. Built on the best practices from the private sector and input collected from the Global Wash Cluster members, IHIP consolidated all valuable contributions in a new set of particular conditions of contract. Those are specifically designed to derisk WASH projects, with a solid and relevant contract template allowing your organization to take on larger project with mature contract management inbuilt mechanism.

If you are planning to start a new WASH construction project for more than USD 50K, you can benefit from this available expertise and be an early adopter of the IHIP harmonised conditions of contract. We are already partnering with the NGO ZOA, which will be among the first implementers, but more partners are sought.

IHIP is looking forward to support you in using the contract and collect any contributions from our partnership to improve the conditions of contract when relevant.

CALL FOR HELP

Are you ready to be a contributor to the improvement of contracting in the WASH sector?

Deadline 30/10/2021

Hosted and organized by Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI) , World Water Week is the leading annual global event for concretely addressing the planet’s major water issues. In 2021, World Water Week 2021 will be held entirely online, 23-27 August, with the theme Building Resilience Faster.

On 26th of August 2021, the humanitarian Water, Sanitation and Hygiene actors will present the 2020-2025 roadmap. IHIP as a co leader with UN-HCR of the inititiative exploring how best to engage with the private sector will contribute to this 60 mn presentation.