Desk Review: Urban Displacement & Outside of Camp

This CCCM desk review on outside camp contexts was conducted from July to December 2013. It aims to explore how CCCM resources and experiences of camplike and camp-based responses can be applied to respond to the needs of displaced populations outside camps, in particular in urban environments. As part of the ECHO-funded Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM) Cluster project ‘Enhancing the Coordination of Camp Management and Camp Coordination Intervention in Emergencies’, this desk review addresses this in two main ways.

The first part identifies the main gaps in humanitarian responses in outside camp contexts based on a literature review. The second part identifies a number of CCCM related experiences of community support activities already used for outside camps contexts or which can be easily adapted hrough a collection of case studies. The final section then presents a possible model of CCCM intervention outside camps called ‘The Centre for Communication and Community Management’.

This document was developed primarily for CCCM practitioners but it hopes to be a means to enhance dialogue with other actors of the cluster system, national authorities, early recovery and development actors to improve the humanitarian response toward IDPs outside camps.