Shelter Response Profiles are part of a broader set of tools and documents developed and used to facilitate contextualization of responses. This document provides reference data on local building cultures and sociocultural strategies that contribute to people's resilience. It also presents evaluation criteria that can assist in elaborating locally adapted project strategies. The target audience includes local, national, international, governmental, non-governmental, and civil society actors involved in the prevention, preparedness, and response to humanitarian crises (disasters or conflicts) in the shelter, housing, and human settlements sector.

CRAterre in collaboration with NW Syria – Turkey Hub Shelter Cluster produced this document with support from Shelter Cluster partners: ATAA; BINAA; CARE; Global Communities; IYD; Mercy-USA; Qatar Charity; Shafak; UNHCR; Watan. The production of this document was made possible by funding from the GSC DG ECHO Grant 2021-2023 and from UNHCR with support from the USAID-BHA Grant 2020-2022, managed by IFRC, a co-lead agency of the GSC. This work was also supported by a public grant overseen by the French National Research Agency (ANR) as part of the "Investissements d'Avenir"