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On February 6, 2023, two major earthquakes hit Türkiye, with the epicenters in Pazarcık (Mw 7.7; focal depth: 8.6 km) and Elbistan (Mw 7.6; focal depth: 7 km) districts of Kahramanmaraş, at 04:17 and 13:24 local time, respectively. On February 20, 2023, another earthquake with a magnitude of Mw 6.4 occurred, with the epicenter of Samandağ, Hatay, at 20:04 local time. The area affected by these earthquakes was 11 provinces in southeastern Türkiye. Particularly in some of the affected areas, such as Hatay and Kahramanmaraş provinces, entire towns were demolished. The earthquake caused damage of a magnitude unseen in recent years. To meet immediate rural shelter needs after the earthquake, AFAD has tasked the General Directorate for Construction Affairs of Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change to reconstruct immediately 50 percent of collapsed rural housing amounting to US$ 10.2 billion. Therefore, the Government of Türkiye requested the Government of Japan to finance the reconstruction of rural housing and village infrastructure. The Project includes a component that will finance civil works, consulting, and non-consulting services to support reconstruction of rural neighborhoods, barns, haystacks and workplaces and the recovery and/or repair of associated infrastructure earthquake-affected under the GoT’s existing post-disaster housing reconstruction program. Under the post-disaster rural housing reconstruction program, AFAD and GDCA have been working in coordination to conduct damage assessments in rural settlements, identification of property owners that are eligible to participate in the program, and to select project sites by implementing ground surveys and site identification to confirm where in-situ reconstruction is safe and where relocation to safer sites is necessary. Additionally, GDCA has prepared several typical design projects for rural houses adaptable to selected site conditions and from which the eligible right holders can choose.