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September 2023 Monthly Shelter Cluster Meeting

Actions Points from the Meeting

  • Shelter Cluster partners to include price monitoring as part of their project proposal activities for 2024. Communicate plans to the cluster team so that a timeline can be made to update technical guidance. 
  • Shelter Cluster Coordinator to update partners on the progress of MSNA data collection for the upcoming Humanitarian Needs Overview process.
  • Shelter Cluster partners to remember to share their photos through the photo collection tool. 
  • Shelter Cluster partners to make use of the Shelter Cluster one pager as they prepare their projects for 2024. 
  • SIRDEP to make sure that the NFI distributions that were done in Ngo-Ketunjia are fully updated to the 5W. The only data that was received was on the rental assistance for the month of August.
  • Shelter Cluster partners to review the activity matrix which will be circulated for review in preparation for the upcoming Humanitarian Response Plan exercise.

Updates from Cluster Partners

  • SIRDEP, the implementing partner of NRC, conducted NFI distributions in Ngo-Kentunjia in addition to beginning rental support in Bamenda 2. The rental support is a first tranche covering 3 months rent from August to October, with the second tranche to be delievered in October. 
  • NRC sent their regrets and the following update: NRC is setting up shelter committees in Benakuma. The light and medium repairs will now start in 2024. 
  • UNHCR and Intersos are preparing to do a training next week in the West and Littoral to assess needs for cash for rent and cash for NFI distribution. UNHCR has assisted. The data collection and assistance is planned for locations in Baffousam, Mbouda, Loum, and Mbanga. 
  • SHUMAS is continuing its rental assistance for 32 IDP households who are students in the university. The current funding period is coming to an end, and they are hoping that the funding will be renwed to continue supporting them for the remainder of 2023. 
  • UNDP has begun a rapid needs assessment in Wum, Gwa, and Ndu in Donga Mantun for a repair intervention. The assessment also includes pricing. Many homes were found that were 75% damaged, so it is also important to ascertain occupany and if inhabitants are willing to return in case they are not fully living in these damaged shelters.

Recording of the Cluster Meeting

Attendance to the Meeting

Buea

  • CSC
  • DRC
  • One Green Africa
  • Intersos
  • CASAF

Bafoussam

  • Rhema Care
  • HURAC

Douala

  • UNHCR

Bamenda

  • ASDEPCO
  • AWA
  • Caritas Bamenda
  • COHESODEC
  • IRC
  • SIRDEP
  • SHUMAS
  • UNDP
  • UNHCR

Online

  • CRS
  • Intersos Bamenda
  • OCHA Bamenda
  • HLP AoR Coordinator NWSW-NRC
  • National Shelter Sector Coordinator