Camp Management

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Camp Management

• Safe haven
• No solutions disastrous in long run
• Possibility of site preparation slim
• Required expertise
• Registration
• Engineering
• Construction
• Distribution
• Capacity building
• Vulnerability basics
• Gender

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Camp Management

• Protection aspects
• Camp management is about protection
• Delivery of rights shelters, food, water, etc
• Legal rights IDs, registration
• Protection by presence
• Decision making
• Displaced persons usually resourceful
• Displaced are often not homogenous
• Risk of sexual violence
• Discrimination of persons with HIV/AIDs

3
Needs Assessment and Planning

• Emergency
• Lives are at stake
• Reaction time-short
• Risk factors high
• Uncertainty
• Staff under stress
• No obvious answers

4
Needs Assessment and Planning

• Management
• Leading creating communicating a vision
• Planning assessing -gt immediate/ long-term
  goals and activities
• Organising and coordinating
• Coordinating people and organisations

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Needs Assessment and Planning

• Planning
• Contingency plan based on assumptions
• Operations plan based on needs and resource
  assessments
• Initial assessment
• Who are the IDPs, their number arrival pattern
• Characteristics of location
• Health status
• Resources, spontaneous arrangements assistance
  being delivered
• Means to deliver protection and assistance

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Operations Planning

• Tendency to postpone planning
• Very important to plan
• View of IDPs to be taken into account
• Operations planning process
• Assess problems needs resources
• Assess critical unmet needs
• Resources include human IP financial
• Identify critical unmet needs

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Camp Closure and Durable Solutions

• Camps protect displaced communities
• Camp closure requires specialised expertise
• Camp closure linked to durable solutions
• Camps often last longer than planned
• Future eventualities need to be anticipate
• Population growth
• Sustainable resources
• Water
• Land
• Labour market
• Host communities

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Camp Closure and Durable Solutions

• Infrastructure useful to host community
• Camp closure can occur
• Lack of donor support
• Security threats
• Coercion
• Challenges in camp closure
• Occurs after a long and complex process
• People are tired
• Camp residents are anxious
• Downturn in energy and focus

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Durable Solutions

• Free and informed decision
• Safety during and after return
• Physical security, material security, legal safety