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- Permanent Link:
- http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI13022798/00001
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- Summary:
- This is an assessment report of Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) shelter and camp management program in Timor-Leste. It provides an evaluation of the NRC’s ability to provide assistance, protection, and durable solutions (looking particularly at self-reliance and livelihood possibilities) to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The political and civil unrest that erupted in Timor-Leste in April and May 2006 led to the displacement of approximately 150,000 in the capital, Dili, and surrounding districts. By June 2006, fifty-six IDP camps housed approximately 67,916 IDPs, and a further 78,431 IDPs were displaced throughout the districts. While the central focus of the government was on encouraging and enabling IDPs to leave the camps by facilitating dialogue between returnees and host communities, the international community provided camp services such as shelter, site liaison support, water and sanitation, food, non-food items, and medical care. The Norwegian Refugee Council started the shelter program and camp management project with the primary goal of constructing transitional shelters to improve living conditions for those IDPs living in camps or with host families. The evaluation team found that the NRC built 595 transitional shelter units and plans to build more, but that comprehensive plans for the reconstruction of houses destroyed during the 2006 crisis were unsuccessful due to constraints beyond the control of the NRC, such as government policy and priorities. The major section of the report contains findings focused on the NRC program’s relevance and appropriateness, efficiency, coordination and coherence, effectiveness, impact, and protection and advocacy. The evaluation report used desktop research of relevant material in the NRC, as well as interviews with former and current camp residents, members of host communities, camp management personnel, national and local government representatives, NGOs, and the humanitarian community. According to the report, the Norwegian Refugee Council’s response to the displacement crisis proved to be one of the central determining factors in enabling IDPs to leave the camps. It provided them with safe and dignified alternative shelter sites, while the government sought durable solutions to their displacement. The review found that the NRC response overall scored high on most of the OECD-DAC criteria and is broadly founded on internationally accepted protection standards and principles. ( English )
- Subject:
- Shelters ( English )
- Citation/Reference:
- Kvernrod, M., Powles, A., Da Silva, P., McKenzie, C. (2009). Half-way home? a study of shelter and camp management in Timor-Leste. Norwegian Refugee Council.
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