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n October 2002 an inter-agency working group (comprising OCHA, UNHCR, NRC, the International Rescue Committee and the Sierra Leone government’s National Commission for Social Action) set up the Camp Management Project.The initiative sprang from the urgent need to focus on management of displaced people’s camps following the sexual exploitation scandal involving human-itarian agencies in West Africa.1

While comprehensive guidelines and minimum standards already exist for camp design, construction and service delivery, there has not been a system-atic and holistic approach to camp management – from negotiating camp locations through to camp closure. Neither is there any comprehensive documentation with a camp manage-ment perspective which could be a practical tool to complement existing sectoral guidelines.

Camp management agencies play a critical role in delivering assistance and providing protection for dis-placed people in both IDP and refugee settings. However, the capacities of management agencies vary widely depending on their expertise,

experience and ability to secure donor support. These differences in manage-ment and approach are particularly clear between refugee and IDP set-tings. The inter-agency working group in Sierra Leone has focused on identi-fying key areas of camp management responsibilities, reviewing lessons learnt and identifying good practice from refugee camp situations which could be transferred to IDP camp management. By combining all of this, the working group aimed to develop a comprehensive overview from a camp management perspective. The product that was developed became the Camp Management Toolkit.

The objectives of the Camp Management Toolkitare:

■ to define and compile information on all aspects of camp operations required by a camp manager (there are 19 chapters2

)

■ to define the roles and responsibil-ities of camp managers in relation to each subject

■ to provide a list of essential read-ing for each subject

■ to provide both practical and ref-erence tools to support camp managers in their daily work, including checklists, monitoring forms and practical guidelines.

The toolkit addresses both the techni-cal and social aspects of camp management and is meant to be an iterative document, open to additions and changes. This initiative specifical-ly focuses on individual camp managers and camp management agencies. It does not aim to be exhaustive and there is no intention to duplicate or revise existing guide-lines or standards. Ultimately, the toolkit aims to provide a comprehen-sive, holistic and practical overview of a full spectrum of camp management responsibilities.

The Camp Management Project is now moving to a global level. From October to mid-December 2003, the toolkit will be field-tested in selected

countries in Africa, Europe, Asia and South America in order to identify gaps in information and tools, assess the effectiveness of the tools, review and assess the present design, enhance the revised toolkit with newly identified good practices and identify which operational areas of the toolkit are consulted more fre-quently.

For the field testing to be as reliable as possible, it will take place in a cross-section of conflict-prone or post-conflict countries. The main cri-teria for selecting field-testing countries are:

■ a non-emergency refugee/ internally displaced situation

■ an established IRC and/or NRC presence alongside UNHCR and OCHA country offices or other partners willing to coordinate in-country field testing in close cooperation with the Camp Management Project coordinator at NRC-Oslo

■ a well-established humanitarian presence.

For further information please contact Nina M Birkeland. Email: nina.birkeland@nrc.no

1. See FMR15 pp16-19 and FMR16 pp45-46.

2. The 19 chapters are: negotiations; camp design, care and maintenance; camp management team; camp committees; food distribution and non-food items; water and sanitation; registration and data collection; security; protection; child protection; community participation; formal education; enhancing livelihood strategies; sexual- and gen-der-based violence; recreation and youth; health care and health education; psychosocial care; peace building and reconciliation; and camp clo-sure.

Global IDP Project

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The Global IDP Project is pleased to present

the inter-agency Camp Management Project:

The Global IDP Projectis an

interna-tional non-profit organisation that monitors internal displacement caused

by conflicts.

The IDP Database (www.idpproject.org) provides public information about internal displacement in 50 countries.

The Project is part of the Norwegian

Refugee Council (NRC),an organisation

that works to provide assistance and protection to refugees and displaced people in Africa, Asia, Europe and the

Americas. NRC was founded in 1946 in Oslo.

The Global IDP Project

Chemin Moïse-Duboule 59 CH 1209 Geneva, Switzerland

Tel: +41 22 799 0700 Fax: +41 22 799 0701 Email: idpproject@nrc.ch

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