Any one-day count of shelters, camps and people living in cars would be inaccurate, she said.
UNHCR leads a cluster supporting the provision of shelter, camp management and services, including the supply of basic domestic items based on needs assessments.
As part of a larger UN reform effort to improve the effectiveness of humanitarian relief, a 'cluster approach' was adopted in 2005 to enhance coordination in nine key sectors: nutrition, health, water and sanitation, emergency shelter, camp coordination and management, protection, early recovery, logistics, telecommunications.
(HAITI Emergency Shelter and Camp Coordination Camp Management Cluster, Displacement Tracking Matrix V2.0 Update, November 30 , 2011.
Chickees are sheltered camping platforms standing in the water.
Ardiah rolls her wheelbarrow through one of Palu's temporary shelter camps, where she has lived and sold baked goods for three months.
At shelter camps in severely affected areas, 428 new hand pumps have been installed.
And though the number of shelter camps is decreasing, many families are returning home to find little or nothing left to salvage, and their livelihoods destroyed.
The staff continuously conducted higher-level advocacy with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), coordination and interagency, WASH, shelter, Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM), non-food items (NFIs), and education working group meetings.
"Purists" are hikers who stick to the official AT trail, follow the white blazes, except for side trips to shelters and camp sites.
