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2022-06 Factsheet - North West South West

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@SW Shelter Cluster Workshop on Analysis June 2022

Highlights

Consistent with the first half of the year, the implementation rate in the month of June was quite low. Most of partners have finalized beneficiary registration, so while not many achievements were done in terms of households reached, the number of planned households to be targeted increased. It is hoped that implementation rates in the month of July will increase. 

During the month of June, the Intenational Rescue Committee reached 74 households with in-kind NFI kit distribution and the Danish Refugee Council reached 10 households with light shelter kits in Buea. CEREDRUP in addition to monitoring for housing, land, and property issues started to support 3 households with a 3-month cash for rent assistance. In the Northwest, Shumas and Emmanuel Sister Akum continued to provide monthly rental assistance to 110 people from 35 households in Mezam Division.

The Shelter Cluster held a workshop on analysis which helped in producting a standardized cluster household needs assessment tool and a method for analyzing those indicators to rank severities of shelters. The Shelter Cluster also deliberated on the way forward to improve the quality of its shelter response which has not been in adequate proportion to the needs. 

NFI(HH)

Shelter(HH)

Coverage against targets

Need analysis

The Shelter Cluster worked with partners in order to analyze the severities of Shelter conditions in the Northwest and Southwest regions from a household assessment that Plan International conducted earlier in the year. A dashboard of the indicators was put in place in order to facilitate Shelter Cluster partners' analysis of the data. When the data was analyzed together through the weighting system that the Shelter Cluster partners designed in June 2022, 43% of households were found to have severe inadequacies, 39% of households were found to have moderateinadequacies, 9% had extreme inadequacies, and 8% had minor inadequacies. Internally displaced persons tend to have the most inadequate shelter. A full description of these levels of conditions is found in the Shelter Cluster Guidance Note on the topic. 

Response

Northwest

  • During the first week of May, NRC conducted a rental market assessment in Bamenda town. They also began preparations for the next phase of their project implementation for the distribution of shelter kits through a voucher modality. 
  • Sister Emmanuel continued to provide rental assistance to 15 households in Akum. 
  • Shumas continued with their rental assistance to 20 students in Bamenda.
  • CRS distributed the vouchers to their beneficiaries and began explaining to them about their rights and how to use the cards. The NFI top-up is planned for July.
  • Caritas is preparing to begin distiributions of NFI and Shelter Kits in July in both Northwest and Southwest with funding from UNHCR.

Southwest

  • DRC distributed shelter kits in-kind to 10 households. The PDM found though that some of the beneficiaries did not find the items useful and sold them to address more emergency WASH needs. This is another reason to introduce the Shelter Kit checklist.
  • CERENDRUP began supporting 3 households with pressing shelter needs with a 3-month cash for rent program. 
  • IRC distributed NFI items to 74 households in Meme and Fako Divisions. 
  • IOM is preparing a new project for the Rapid Response Mechanism to help in situations of new displacements. They expect this project to begin in July. 

Gaps / challenges

  • Implementation rates have been very slow during the first half of 2022 and the Shelter Cluster has a very low achievement rate. The Shelter Cluster has tried to encourage partners to also consider distribution in the Littoral and West regions especially for partners that have encountered blockages with access. 
  • The Shelter Cluster is continuing to work on ensuring that accountabilities and proper targeting of the shelter response is in place to improve the implementation rate of Shelter. During the Cluster meeting, a shelter kit checklist was introduced and is being reviewed by operational partners. This is also a stepping stone for cluster partners to implement a more quality monetized response. 
  • There is still a need to document the outcome of voucher modality in assuring that the minimum critieria of habitable and adequate emergency shelter are being met given the continued ban on metallic items in the kit.