Location: Gaziantep, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey

Date of Start and Completion: August 2023-March 2024

Clients: Habitat for Humanity (HFH) – Gaziantep and Kahramanmaraş Municipalities

In this contract, Protek-Yapi served as a sub-consultant under Miyamoto International Inc.

Project Description:

The following interventions were implemented during this project for Elbistan Municipality, a municipal organization situated in the Kahramanmaraş province in eastern Anatolia, Republic of Turkey, as well as Gaziantep Municipality.

• Intervention 1. Designing and implementing an effective communication campaign aimed at promoting the reoccupation of undamaged structures.
• Intervention 2. Developing and implementing performance, repairability, and cost quantification assessments for lightly and/or moderately damaged and rapidly repairable structures.
• Intervention 3. Disseminating building repair guidelines and best practices.
• Intervention 4. Rapid repair construction of buildings in selected districts.
• Intervention 5. Implementing a communication campaign to further assist in disseminating information on cost-effective, and safe repair methodologies.
• Intervention 6. Developing construction tender documents for competitive bidding.
• Intervention 7. Developing rehabilitation construction schedule and training of contractors.

During this project:

• Undamaged structures were identified and their households (11,000 households) have been equipped with improved knowledge of structural safety issues as they pertain to their homes.
• Approximately 2500 lightly damaged structures were assessed and the necessary information and guidance to rapidly, cost-effectively, and safely repair their lightly damaged houses were provided. The repair needs, cost estimates, and Bill of Quantities (BOQs) for each inspected building were provided.
• The repair strategies for each building type were packaged into guidelines and communication materials for broader dissemination and use.
• The Miyamoto-Protek team provided the necessary support to repair 25 units in the field.
• To engage the community and build trust, a multifaced plan was designed and implemented including:
  
  • Distribution of Over 5000 brochures and general informative sections, reaching out and informing more than 10000 individuals.
  • Town-hall event held at the Red Crescent office.
  • Municipality department leads and managers lessons learned.
  • Municipality staff brochure distributing and informing.
  • Town-hall for “mukhtars and community leaders”.
  • Live-streaming of town-hall events via YouTube/Instagram channels.
  • Social media campaign: Six posts were designed for the social media campaign. The total Unique Reach at the end of the Social Media Campaign is 2,621,378.

More information can be reached using the following link:

https://miyamotoprotek.com/