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This Programme Policy has been developed to guide the Nowegian Refugee Council (NRC) in its development and implementation of programme activities - saving lives, alleviating suffering, upholind...
The presentation and accompanying notes provide details on a camp management toolkit for humanitarian workers, outlining NRC's strategy for dissemination and future training.
The document...
The speaker presented a NRC shelter programme in Sri Lanka as a model programme in which the participatory method had been used to good effect. He sought to dispel myths about the participatory...
The speakers working with The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), described how they trained refugee camp inhabitants to manage their own camps. Focusing on Sri Lanka, they argued that the dispersed...
The speaker had collected open source software which could be used easily for mapping by field workers, and he had trained trainers in the use of these GIS tools.
He explained the...
The speaker welcomed the participants to Shelter Meeting 07b. Whilst his work deals with refugees and IDPs, he emphasised that few aspects shape policy more than shelter. He also highlighted the...
The speaker discussed the land rights issues of displaced people returning home. She drew attention to the Pinheiro Principles, and the recently published 'Housing and Property Restitution for...
Veit Vogel, NRC/Camp Management Project, gave an overview of the camp
management project and the status of the new edition. Veit Vogel
described how the revised Camp Management Toolkit...
Øyvind Nordlie and Martin Suvatne focussed on the challenges of providing shelter assistance to displaced people in urban areas, whose needs are often not well understood or supported. Their...
Øyvind Nordlie of NRC led this session. The group considered which items should be combined to from a base kit for cold climates. Among the proposed NFIs were wind up torches and longer stove...