Post conflict and post disaster reconstruction and the right to adequate housing 2011, para. 43
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- The Gujarat study points to some of the dangers of resorting to rushed, donor-driven programming, which can neglect the social capital of the affected residents, and to contractor-driven reconstruction projects, which are rarely developmental in nature. The authors conclude that "The drive to rebuild quickly inevitably leads early on to the decision to hire commercial contractors. At this point projects such as these usually cease to be developmental initiatives and become construction projects. The participation of residents is relegated to mixing concrete or making building blocks, or worse. […] Fundamentally, the contractor-driven approach to shelter is focused on the construction of housing units. Yet shelter is far more than that ". They also warn that: "When powerful external agents are driving the process within an affected village, the social capital present within long-standing communities can be ignored or even damaged".
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on adequate housing as a component of the right to an adequate standard of living
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Year
- 2011
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Reference
- SR Housing, Report to the HRC (2011), A/HRC/16/42, para. 43.
- Paragraph number
- 43
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