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Re-Alliance Ecobuilding in Crisis: Humanitarian Course
2026



DATE: 2026
STATUS: In progress

Commissioned by: Re-Alliance
Supported by: Humanitarian Leadership Academy, Kaya
LOCATION: ONLINE
With application to humanitarian and displacement settings worldwide.
Largest learner bases: Iraq, Yemen, Nigeria, Syria, and refugee-hosting countries.
CLIMATE STRESSORS: Drought / water scarcity, Extreme heat, Flooding, Soil degradation

OFR ROLE: Lead designer (course author)
OFR WORK STRANDS: Research & Publication; Capacity & Co-Design; Spatial Design 




OFR is designing and writing an open-access course on biobased construction (ecobuilding) for humanitarian and displacement contexts, commissioned by Re-Alliance as part of its suite of courses on regenerative response. The module draws on field practice and collaborates with presenters in India, the Philippines and Uganda. It will be published on the Kaya humanitarian learning network.

The module is built to be taught anywhere with a reach of over 800,000+ humanitarian workers across Latin America and the Caribbean, West and Central Africa, Middle East and North Africa, East and Southern Africa and South-East Asia. Every element is designed for mobile use and low or intermittent bandwidth, with readings downloadable for offline study and examples drawn from real buildings and field conditions. 




Across protracted displacement and climate-frontline settings, the people building shelter and community infrastructure are rarely the people trained to design it, and they build under real constraints: limited materials, little formal construction training, low bandwidth, and the long timelines of such crises. Re-Alliance commissioned OFR to bring practical ecological construction knowledge in the hands of the people already building in displacement and crisis, in a form they can adapt, teach onward, and use without a supply chain or a specialist on call.

The course connects where construction knowledge meets the conditions of displacement: how to build durably and safely with the materials a place already has (earth, timber, bamboo, salvage...), on the timelines and budgets of a crisis, without importing methods that cannot be maintained locally. OFR is writing the module as a practitioner, anchoring each section in permaculture ethics (earth care, people care, fair share) and in field practice in disaster-prone, climate-challenged and displacement-prone areas, so the building principles arrive grounded in the places learners are responding to.





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