Abstract
The monitoring of 2018 shelter activities confirms the main findings of the 2017 campaign: the repair of houses damaged by conflict-related incidents is still highly appreciated by recipients (95% of respondents, compared to 97% in 2017) and is executed with good quality (99% of cases, compared to 100% in 2017).
In only 7 cases out of 464 (less than 2%), the repair works were deemed by the monitoring team as being not in accordance with the locally accepted standards and good construction practices (0 cases in 2017).
The 464 monitoring visits conducted in 2018 correspond also to more than three-quarters of the minimum sample suggested by the SOPs (602 visits, or 44% of the total number of repairs). Also, this is a significant improvement compared to 2017, when the monitoring teams managed to cover only one-third of the recommended sample. UNHCR was able to monitor a higher proportion of houses in 2018 as compared to the previous year for two main reasons. First, to address the chronic lack of vehicles to conduct field visits, teams made a concerted effort to plan field visits in advance for times when vehicles would be available. Second, teams used the Kobo format of the monitoring form consistently and correctly, which eliminated the extra step of data entry and made the monitoring process more efficient.
