The Shelter Cluster was first activated in the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon in October of 2018. This will be the fourth year of the Shelter Cluster approach in response to the humanitarian situation created by the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon. Currently, the Shelter Cluster has 20 partner agencies on its mailing list with 16 of them (most of them national NGOs), reporting activities as of the end of 2021. The last cluster coordination performance monitoring was conducted in 2019, shortly after the Cluster was established. While some progress has been made, there are other areas where there needs to be improvements. In order to conduct the exercise, partners completed the standard CCPM questionnaire in January, which was consolidated at national level. At subnational level, the Subnational Shelter Cluster Coordinator for NWSW Cameroon conducted a series of bilateral meetings and consultations with partners in February, followed by the use of an interactive poll during the Shelter Cluster meeting on the 2nd of March 2022. Main recommendations include:

1. Shelter Cluster requires the contribution of all partners and the coordinators to make the core functions possible.
2. Ensure stronger and more regular reporting to the Cluster’s 5W tool to better operationalize coordination and prevent duplications of assistance.
3. Strengthen capacity building for national NGOs in various programmatic and shelter-related areas to better support longer-term integration of the Cluster.
4. Increase efforts in the areas of advocacy and resource mobilization at various levels.
5. Put in place mechanisms to better support accountability to affected populations.

More detailed recommendations and the assessment of the Cluster is detailed in the report.