The CCCM Cluster

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The CCCM Cluster - Camp Coordination Camp
Management
ARDEX-08 Camp Management Training Workshop 25 to
28 August 2008
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Cluster Partners at Global Level

• Regular
• UNHCR and IOM (co-chairs)
• CARE International
• Danish Refugee Council (DRC)
• International Rescue Committee (IRC)
• Lutheran World Federation (LWF)
• Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
• Shelter Centre
• WFP
• United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)
• OCHA
• Occasional
• UNRWA, ICRC, IFRC, OHCHR, UNICEF

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Camp Coordination Camp Management
- what is it about?
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CCCM in a few words
'SOFTWARE' CCCM deals with the know how, the
people and organizational aspects of
establishing, running and closing of camps.
'HARDWARE' Technical standards and guidelines are
not part of CCCM
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The levels of intervention

• GLOBAL
• Standards/policy-setting. Building response
  capacity.
• Operational support.
• NATIONAL
• Support/development of national strategies and
  plans
• FIELD / REGIONAL
• Coordination of multiple camps
• IN ONE CAMP
• Management of a single camp

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Generic Roles and Responsibilities

• Camp Administration RR of
• authorities at camp level
• Camp Coordination RR of cluster
• lead at inter-camp level
• 3. Camp Management RR of NGOs
• at individual camp level

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CCCM Definitions

• Camp Administration (Supervision)
• designating camps (incl. land issues and
  compensation)
• overall supervision
• camp security / ensuring the civilian character
  of camps
• maintaining law and order
• issuance of documentation, permits, and licenses
  (birth certificates, ID cards, travel permits,
  etc.)

Role of Governments and National Authorities
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CCCM Definitions

• Camp Coordination
• ensuring that international standards are being
  applied and maintained
• identification and designation of service
  providers
• monitoring and evaluation of service provision
• provide and manage information
• advocacy and interface with national authorities
  at all levels to create the humanitarian space
  necessary for the effective delivery of
  protection and assistance in camps
• ensure that camp populations are involved in
  governance issues

Role of UN Agencies/ International Organizations
designated as IASC Cluster Leads
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CCCM Definitions
Camp Management All activities within one camp
that include establishing camp governance and
community participation/ mobilization mechanisms
maintenance of camp infra-structure, data
collection and sharing, providing defined
services and monitoring the service delivery of
other providers in accordance with agreed
standards, in order to avoid the duplication of
activities and emergence of protection and
assistance gaps.
Role of Camp Managing Agency, normally national
or international NGOs
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CCCM Definitions

• Activities within one camp that
• include
• establishing camp governance
• and community participation/
• mobilization mechanisms

• maintenance of camp infra-structure
• data collection and sharing
• providing defined services

Camp Management / Role of NGO partners

• monitoring the service delivery
• of other providers in accordance
• with agreed standards
• identification of protection and assistance
  gaps

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Main Goals of CCCM are

• Improve living conditions, assistance to and
  protection of IDPs in camps.
• Effective common policy framework guiding
  humanitarian actors.
• Consistency and common standards applied in all
  camps.
• Secure humanitarian space and unhindered access
  and delivery of humanitarian services.
• Show added value of CCCM as a key sector which is
  resourced with adequate staff and funding.
• Organised closure and phase-out of camps upon IDP
  return.
• Mainstreaming of cross-cutting issues.

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What there is not

• Definition of what is a camp

• Forthcoming camp-like settlement concept

What the CCCM Framework contains

• Legitimate / illegitimeate camps
• Land / compensation issues
• Policing and security

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CCCM - Policy Setting at Global Level

• CCCM Framework (in English and French)
• CD Rom/Database 'IDP Key Resources' with
  linkage from Humanitarian Reform website
  www.humanitarianreform.org
• Studies/ 'Best practice'
• UNHCR on collective centres,
• IOM on mobile camp management (up-coming)
• Camp Management Toolkit, www.nrc.no/camp
• IASC Gender Handbook CCCM chapter
• IASC Guidelines on IDP Profiling (June/July
  2007)

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CCCM Standards and Policy-Setting

• CCCM framework roles and responsibilities
• IASC Gender Handbook CCCM chapter
• Needs Analysis Framework (NAF) CCCM section
• Study/Best practice IDP collective centres
• Best practice camp coordination and camp
  management
• Terms of References (ToR) for CCCM Cluster Lead
• With WASH cluster Mapping of roles and
  responsibilities of CCCM WASH at field level
• IASC Guidance on Profiling of IDPs
• Available on www.humanitarianreform.org

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Thank you for your attention.