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April 6 2022 NWSW Cameroon Shelter Cluster Meeting

Recording of Meeting

Action points of the Meeting

  1. Partners are kindly asked to revise the attached activity matrix looking not only at activities and standards, but also to look at items such as type of beneficiaries targeted with each type of activity and for whom which modality would be most appropriate. This is a key step as part of our strategy update. As mentioned, you can comment in an email, insert comments or write in a different colour to edit the inputs.
  2. The Shelter Cluster can now confirm that the Strategy workshops will be held on the 13th-14th April in Bamenda focusing on the NW region, and the 27th and 28th of April in Buea focusing on the SW region. 
  3. Please also take a look at the 2022 Assessment Tracker: if you have comments, please do let us know as soon as possible. If no, we would like agencies to start completing and entering data to the Assessment Tracker. Please also do ensure that you share any assessments and we will circulate and publish through the Shelter Cluster website.
  4. 5W submissions for the month of March are due on Saturday April 9th. Please submit one report per location at the following Kobo link: https://enketo.unhcr.org/x/q1JyQvk8 if you are having any difficulties in completing the report, please do contact Blaise or myself and we would be more than happy to support or have a joint session together either through sharing screens or at the office in Bamenda. Please let us know.
    1. In terms of photo submissions, some good questions were posed: As a reminder, please do ensure that any photos showing the faces of beneficiaries that you have their consent for taking their photo and for using the photo in publications.
    2. The Shelter cluster team though will reserve the right to screen out photos that potentially show faces of children.
    3. Currently the 5W form allows for limited size and only about one photo per submission, if you have more than one photo, you can send it to Blaise or myself. As mentioned during our CCPM exercise, photo sharing is one way we can better show and advocate for our response.
  5. 5W Reports: With many thanks to partners who reported in February, we are pleased to share the following products and also to continue updating the dashboard per your operational needs available on our Shelter Cluster web page:
    1. February 2022 Factsheet
    2. February 2022 Partner Presence
    3. February 2022 Static Dashboard
    4. Jan-Feb Interactive Dashboard: Please do play around with the features to sort through any coordination. We will be updating this per the information from your 5W reports and per any feedback or requests for catering it to your operational needs.
  6. With many thanks to Roel, the access strategy presentation is attached for your information. Please also do find the attached access strategy. Do have a look and think critically about how access constraints are impacting our Shelter and NFI response in the region. To discuss and report access constraints that your organization may encounter in the field, Roel’s email is debruyner@un.org. As we are going to be soon having the workshop on the strategy updates, it is important that we take into account the specific humanitarian community access strategy into our specific Shelter Cluster strategy, so I encourage all partners to read and reflect on how that impacts.
  7. Please do see the video made by the Global Shelter Cluster GBV WG on GBV Disclosure in shelter operations. Apologies for the sound not working during the meeting, please do feel free to share it with your teams who are deploying to the field: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_YhXzMv1E4
  8. With many thanks to Florence and her team, please find attached the presentation on GBV referral pathways in the context of NWSW Cameroon: Florence will be sharing with us the soft copies and you can contact her at aliba@unfpa.org for the hard copies of the booklets or in case your team is having difficulties in finding service providers for GBV incidents encountered in the field.
    1. Related with the needs for the referrals, please found the GBV Constant Companion link which you can prepare prior to going to the field to have in case of encountering such cases and for providing orientations to the field teams. We will aim to work with Florence on producing some versions of this once we are receiving the updated booklets: https://sheltercluster.org/gbv-shelter-programming-working-group/documents/gbv-constant-companion
  9. Due to time limitations, we will postpone the presentation on disability mainstreaming to another meeting.
  10. Partner updates relevant action points:
    1. Shelter Cluster team to ensure that Emmanuel Sisters from Magdalene Home care and Training Center of Akum are able to report their accommodation and NFI activities to the 5W
    2. CRS had to excuse themselves from the meeting, but sent this update:
      1. CRS conducted stakeholder engagement with community leaders and sensitize community members in each of the 24 communities for ACER III intervention – Bamenda I,II,III, Tubah, Bali, Bafut and Batibo on the ACER III project.
      2. The team is currently registering potential participants in communities, and we hope to finish registration by mid-April.
    3. Shumas is continuing their rental activities for students in Bamenda 1 and 2. Shumas to share any results of their impact monitoring for the 560 households they assisted in Lower Fogum. Shumas to report their recent March NFI distributions to the 5W due on Saturday.
    4. IRC is conducting post distribution monitoring activities of the activities they completed in February. IRC to share with the cluster the results of their PDM. IRC is currently looking for supporting any new displacements. Shelter Cluster team to share any new referrals particularly in IRC’s target areas of Fako, Meme, and Mezam divisions.
    5. NRC completed price monitoring in Mezam division and is requested to share with the cluster team any results from this price monitoring. NRC is also looking at supporting beneficiaries in Donga-Mantung.
    6. Caritas to contact Blaise/Renee for any questions on completing the 5W. Cluster team to also look at way of disseminating the recordings of the meeting as some partners had connectivity issues particularly at that point of the 5W demo in today’s meeting.
  11. As there are many issues on which to coordinate the Shelter Cluster has created a Microsoft Teams Channel using the Shelter Cluster office suite. The Shelter Cluster team will try to make a video and have another dedicated session on the teams channel, but the idea is to create a platform where partners can stay in touch and coordinate on important issues outside of the cluster meeting.

Participation.

There were 14 agencies in attendance (AMEF, ASWEDO, Caritas, COHESODEC, CRS, CUAPWD, DRC, IOM, IRC, Plan, NRC, RAGJ, Shumas, and UNDP) in addition and with special thanks to our two presenters from OCHA Civilian-Military Coord and the GBV AoR.