January 2021 First NFI WG of the Year: Energy and Environment Linkages and Environmental Sustainability

Summary of the meeting

The Global Shelter Cluster NFI Working Group held its first meeting on the 19^th of January 2021. The meeting brought together 39 practitioners from agencies and country-level Shelter Clusters. The chair introduced the topic of the meeting and mentioned that her co-chair from IFRC is currently on a contract break, and that Pablo Medina had graciously volunteered to cover for her during the absence. The chair recapped the purpose of Global Shelter Cluster working groups as task-oriented and time-bound working on items that benefit the practitioners that are implementing at country-level. The NFI Working Group had largely focused its work on the development of a training curriculum, and the request was made for country-level clusters to make more contextual guidance. Therefore, meetings were largely organized around topics from the proposed training curriculum with country-clusters and practitioners presenting their lessons learned on the topic. Today’s speakers were a result of discussions that arose during the Global Shelter Cluster meeting and during meetings held in 2020. The relevant actions point decided in this meeting include the following:

Action Point	By Whom	By When
Partners can subscribe to the GSC NFI WG for updates on the activities of the Working Group	Partners by clicking subscribe on the NFI WG Page	No deadline but to get all updates, don’t forget to subscribe!
Take feedback on 2021 priorities and solidify their prioritization in a Survey	NFI WG Chairs	January 29
Partners to reply to Survey on Priorities for WG plan	Partners	February 10
Partners wanting support on energy issues or to share practices to reach out to Aimme Jenks from GPA/UNITAR	Partners	Ongoing
Review the energy indicators shared by IOM by putting your name and organization in a comment section or reaching out to Project Lead Adam Ostaszewski	Partners	As soon as you are able
UNHCR and FCDO to exchange about details on testing on fire retardant plastic sheeting.	UNHCR and FCDO
UNHCR to share with NFI WG ToR for PM for Innovation Norway Project to be circulated to NFI WG members	UNHCR	NFI WG will then publish it on website and circulate to relevant networks
Partners and Country-level Shelter Cluster teams to consider sharing NFI specifications with GSC Environmental Community of Practice	Partners and Shelter Cluster teams	Ongoing basis
Global Shelter Cluster paper on Energy linkages with Shelter and Settlement Programming: Partners to contact NFI WG Chairs about participating in the finalisation of this paper	Partners and NFI WG chairs	ASAP

For the notes of the meeting, please consult the meeting minutes.

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January 2021 First NFI WG of the Year: Energy and Environment Linkages and Environmental Sustainability

Summary of the meeting

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