Dear Global Shelter Cluster NFI WG Members, 

This is our last update of 2020 on the activities of country-level Shelter Clusters related with NFIs taken at the end of the year. Please see this month's rapid respones snippits: 

1. Winterization: Country-level Shelter Clusters are in the process of delivering winterization assistance. Please see the latest updates on those activities: 

• Afghanistan Joint Winterization Strategy
• Whole of Syria
• Iraq Kerosene Position Paper

2. The Gaziantep based Cross Border Operations in Syria Cluster worked with the CCCM Cluster to produce a ntoe on fire safety in camps and agreed actions that each cluster would take to support IDps in mitigating and responding to fires in camps: https://www.sheltercluster.org/x-border-operation-turkey-hub/documents/fire-prevention-and-response-guidance-note

3. In the Philippines, the response scaled up in November to Typhoon Goni and Vamco. A collection of IEC materials and COVID19 protocols are available on the response page: https://www.sheltercluster.org/typhoon-goni-2020/library/iec-materials

4. Yemen has issued an updated version on their technical guidance on NFIs: https://www.sheltercluster.org/yemen/documents/nfi-guideline-sept2020-v22pdf

5. Afghanistan has undertaken a mapping of their NFI stocks across the country to better inform availability of items to respond to new displacements: https://www.sheltercluster.org/afghanistan/documents/es-nficlusterstockpilesoctober2020

6. Score Cards and their role in delivering the response. As you may recall this working group has discussed a lot about the role of score cards in doing beneficiary selection to better deliver the response. Several country-cluster coordinators have been exchanging best practices on this to contextualize it to their response. As a reminder, the GSC NFI WG has collected the best practices on score cards at this link: https://www.sheltercluster.org/working-group-nfi-practices/library/needs-assessment-and-targeting?search=score+card

7. You may recall the presentation of the Somalia Shelter Cluster on Joint Market Monitoring done during the October GSC meeting. A similar initiative has now been undertaken in Venezuela. The results are very interesting and show how inter-cluster cooperaiton on this issue can facilitate access to information on availability of materials and inform on selection of modalities in the response. https://www.sheltercluster.org/venezuela/documents/hoja-informativa-primera-ronda-jmmi-venezuela