{"id":34798,"date":"2017-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ready-for-feedback3.com\/shape-history\/fmr\/zamudio\/"},"modified":"2024-08-27T14:37:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:37:36","slug":"zamudio","status":"publish","type":"fmr_content","link":"https:\/\/www.fmreview.org\/ar\/zamudio\/","title":{"rendered":"When 93,000 people know your name"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Norwejj, norwejj, okay, okay,” was how smiling faces greeted me every morning for nearly two years. I was the Norwegian Refugee Council camp coordinator[1]<\/a> for Kalma IDP camp, east of Nyala in South Darfur. Kalma is currently home to 93,000 IDPs – individuals with the usual range of skills, aspirations and hopes but who, because of violence and conflict, currently need assistance to survive.<\/p>\n

Kalma camp is some 7km long and 1.5km at its widest. It was established in February 2004 when the authorities relocated IDPs from an existing camp near Nyala. By July 2004, when NRC was asked by Sudan’s Humanitarian Affairs Commission (HAC) to coordinate humanitarian efforts, the population of the camp had increased to 46,000. Since then, Kalma’s population has more than doubled.<\/p>\n

NRC was party to a tripartite agreement with the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and HAC, with HAC taking the role of camp manager and NRC that of camp coordinator. The day-to-day work of camp coordination involved daily dialogue with and mediation between IDPs, participating\/partner agencies and international agencies such as the African Union Civilian Police (AU CivPol), the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS)[2]<\/a> and OCHA.<\/p>\n

NRC’s work follows the precepts of international humanitarian law (including respect for and advocating in favour of the provision of humanitarian space and access to beneficiaries), international human rights law, the SPHERE Standards[3]<\/a> and the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement.[4]<\/a> NRC’s approach in Kalma was underpinned by NRC’s Camp Management Toolkit[5]<\/a> which provides a framework for identifying issues, action points, partners\/stakeholders, problems, outputs and results.<\/p>\n

The importance of identifying and understanding stakeholders is a key issue for the success of coordination. Kalma has three major stakeholders:<\/p>\n