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SECTORAL RESPONSE

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CAMP MANAGEMENT

 

 

 

 

 

 1.0        Introduction

Camp Management is a critical aspect of managing interventions especially during displacements induced by disasters. The need for the establishment of proper and well coordinated camp management system for effective and efficient response to emergencies cannot be over emphasized. In most cases the success or failure of such interventions is dependent on the quality of camp arrangement established.


 1.1       Sectoral Objective

 

To ensure quality, timely, efficient and effective camp administration, including stakeholders` coordination and management in line with international standards.


 1.2       Operational Objectives


  1. To ensure coordination of camp arrangements and administration for internally displaced people.                                                                                                                                                  
  2. To understand the core function of the lead agencies, other stakeholders and the roles that other actors may play during different phases of an emergency.

 

 

       Sector Name: Camp Management

Strategies

Requirements

Currently Available/Deployed Activity

Operational Constraint and Gaps

ACTORS

Emergency Preparedness

 

-        Coordination meetings

-        Coordinating the pre-positioning of emergency supplies

-        Training and Simulation exercises

-        Linkages with other sectors

-        Channels of Communication with other stakeholders established

-        Existing Permanent Camps- UN Camp Abuja, IDP Camp Bauchi,

Bakassi Camp CRS, Lagos Camp Agbowa Ikosi, Returnees Camp Oru-Ijebu, Ogun State

-         Permanent and temporary tent shelters deployed. Public utilities (water, lavatories, electricity, security, health etc)

 

-        Bureaucracy, Lack of Funds, Transparency, lack of functionality and capacity of some SEMAs, lack of Logistic supports, lukewarm cooperation from other stakeholders, unruliness of camp residents

NEMA, SEMA, Health, WASH, Security Agencies, Red Cross/Crescent, NGOs, Host Communities, international Development Partners, NAPTIP, NCR, etc

-        Minimum Response

-        Rapid Assessment of the situation of IDPs and of existing facilities and infrastructures

-        Send out report of Assessment and Appeals

-        Registration and segregation of IDPs on basis of gender, age, vulnerability and status

-        Identification of sites

-        Mobilization of sector specific human and material resources

-        Activation of Permanent Camps

-         Deployment of temporary tent shelters  with water, lavatories, electricity, health etc)

-        Invite Security agencies and other stakeholders and actors for emergency meeting/deployments

 

-        Bureaucracy, Lack of Funds, Transparency, lack of functionality and capacity of NEMA/SEMAs and other stakeholders, lack of Logistic supports, lukewarm cooperation from other stakeholders, unruliness of camp residents

NEMA, SEMA, Health, WASH, Security Agencies, Red Cross/Crescent, NGOs, Host Communities, international Development Partners, NAPTIP, NCR, etc

-        Comprehensive Response

 

-        Stockpiling relief materials

-        Periodic reassessment of needs of the camp residents and personnel

-        Send out periodic report of Assessments and further Appeals

-        Further Mobilization of sector specific human and material resources

-        Planning for closure  and decommissioning of camp

-        Bureaucracy, Lack of Funds, Transparency, lack of functionality and capacity of some SEMAs, lack of Logistic supports, lukewarm cooperation from other stakeholders, unruliness of camp residents

NEMA, SEMA, Health, WASH, Security Agencies, Red Cross/Crescent, NGOs, Host Communities, international Development Partners, NAPTIP, NCR, etc