Norwegian Refugee Council ( NRC )
Norwegian Refugee Council ( NRC )
Location : Norway Email : nrc@nrc.no
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee.

We protect displaced people and support them as they build a new future. We started our relief efforts after World War Two. Today, we work in both new and protracted crises across 35 countries. We specialise in six areas: food securityeducationshelterlegal assistancecamp management, and water, sanitation and hygiene.

We stand up for people forced to flee. NRC is a determined advocate for displaced people. We promote and defend displaced people's rights and dignity in local communities, with national governments and in the international arena. NRC’s Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva is a global leader in monitoring, reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.

We respond quickly to emergencies. Our global provider of expertise, NORCAP, boasts around 1,000 experts from all over the world who can be deployed within 72 hours. Our experts help improve international and local ability to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from crises.

Around 16,000 humanitarians work with the Norwegian Refugee Council. Most of us are hired locally to work in the field, and a small number are based at our head office in Oslo. Many of our colleagues were once themselves fleeing their homes.

Today, a record 82.4 million people are fleeing war and persecution. Not since World War Two have more people needed our help. The Norwegian Refugee Council assisted almost 12 million people worldwide in 2020, and with your support, we can help even more.

Our camp management programmes seek to ensure the protection of displaced populations and of their rights, to promote their participation, self-sufficiency and dignity, and to ensure provision of assistance and access to services.

 
We work in camps, in dispersed displacement settings, and within host communities in non-camp settings. We do not promote camps. Camps are not long-term or sustainable solutions – they are a last resort. For this reason, our camp management portfolio includes different approaches, such as assisting displaced people living with host communities. To carry out camp management activities, NRC must be mandated by the government or agency responsible for these settlements.

Our expertise in camp management

Camp management core functions include coordinating and monitoring assistance and protection, setting up and supporting governance and community participation mechanisms, managing and disseminating information, providing multisector feedback mechanisms, and maintaining infrastructure.

We facilitate two-way communication by strengthening the participation of community representatives in decision-making processes, including vulnerable individuals and groups, and developing complaints and feedback mechanisms. We facilitate camp set-ups and upgrades and, where applicable, the maintenance of communal infrastructure.

Our approach differs according to the needs of our beneficiaries, the type of settlement, the phase of the camp life cycle, the humanitarian response capacity, the humanitarian architecture and the actors on the ground.

Four thematic areas

Camp management
In some contexts, displaced people are gathered in formal camps (planned camps, collective centres, transit centres, reception centres). We can assume the role of camp manager if requested by the authorities or mandated agencies. We carry out core camp management functions in these settings.

Mobile Site Management (MSM)
Sometimes, displaced people are gathered in small, dispersed settlements (self-settled camps, rural self-settlements, unmanaged collective centres). These are often not recognised by authorities. In these situations, we adopt an MSM response. Core camp management functions are done through MSM teams. Mobile teams cover several settlements.

Urban Displacement and Outside of Camps (UDOC)
In contexts where displaced people live with host communities, particularly in urban environments, we provide some camp management core functions. We seek to strengthen, not replace, existing governance structures. UDOC programmes are defined by the adoption of an area-based programming approach.

Capacity building/support
When the responsibility for camp management services lies with another designated actor (national authorities, the UN, displaced populations, NGOs, civil society), we can provide operational support or capacity building.

Education is a fundamental human right for all children and youth. A quality education provides children and young people with the skills, capacities and confidence they need to allow them to live lives that they have reason to value. Education creates the voice through which other rights can be claimed and protected.

Displacement has a devastating impact on learning, and often leads to an education being denied or interrupted. Children and youth may suffer from traumatic experiences and a loss of social networks that provide protection and support. The capacity of education systems to deliver quality education is often significantly reduced during and after conflict. These factors weaken a young person’s ability to learn, develop and access opportunities.

Quality education provides protection, a sense of normality, a way of healing trauma, and hope for the future. Evidence consistently shows that education is a top priority for displaced people and should be made available from the onset of an emergency.

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Our expertise in education
We aim to ensure that all displaced children and youth enjoy quality education that is relevant to their psychosocial, emotional and cognitive development, from the start of emergencies. Displaced children and youth are highly marginalised in accessing quality education.

NRC provides opportunities for school-aged children (between six and 18 years old) and youth (between 15 and 24 years old, depending on the country) to complete a full cycle of basic education. We have a particular focus on those who are out of school or have had their education interrupted.

Young women and men are provided with opportunities for post-primary education, including technical and vocational education and training, agricultural training, and tertiary educational opportunities. We only provide early childhood care where it supports access to, and retention in, NRC’s programmes.

We promote and support the inclusion of IDP and refugee children and youth into formal education systems, so they can benefit from an accredited education that allows them to progress through all levels of the education system.

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Recognising that governments are the primary duty bearer, we support governments to uphold their duties, including through teacher professional development and the construction or rehabilitation of schools.

We use our evidence base to promote policy dialogue and change. Teachers are key to the achievement of quality education. They should receive adequate training, follow-up and compensation.

As not all children and youth are able to participate in a formal education, we provide flexible, and, if possible, accredited alternative (non-formal) learning opportunities that enable out-of-school children and youth to fully benefit from education. For youth in particular, a non-formal education should allow learners to develop the necessary skills, knowledge and attitudes that will allow them to find livelihood opportunities.

Our education activities primarily focus on four thematic areas:

education in acute emergencies
alternative and accelerated education
youth education and training
creating safe and inclusive learning environments

 
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