Development, Impact & Global Frameworks
Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM)
The humanitarian system for coordinating and managing displacement camps and camp-like settings — ensuring displaced people receive services, protection and a route to durable solutions.
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A humanitarian coordination framework with two functions: camp coordination — the lead-agency role organising the overall response across a displacement crisis — and camp management — the day-to-day operation of individual sites to ensure services, protection and community participation. Within the UN cluster system, IOM co-leads the Global CCCM Cluster (with UNHCR), IOM leading for disaster-induced displacement and UNHCR for conflict-induced displacement.
References
Global CCCM Cluster co-leadership; IOM's disaster-displacement mandate; Minimum Standards; durable solutions; Zite Manager.
Three-role distinction (coordination / state administrator / camp manager); broad reading of camps incl. collective centres and spontaneous sites.
Overview
What it means
CCCM matters to sustainability because displacement is increasingly climate-linked: floods, storms and drought drive displacement that CCCM systems manage. Three roles are distinguished: the state remains the camp administrator (it holds sovereignty and ultimate responsibility); a lead agency coordinates; and a camp manager — usually an NGO — runs each site.
"Camps" are read broadly to include camp-like settings, collective centres and spontaneous sites. Standards (the Minimum Standards for Camp Management), feedback tools (such as IOM's Zite Manager) and durable-solutions planning structure the work.
How it is used
Humanitarian agencies activate CCCM clusters in crises; governments and NGOs fill the administrator/manager roles; climate-adaptation and disaster-displacement policy draws on CCCM practice for planned relocation and shelter response.
Why it matters
As climate-driven displacement grows, CCCM is the standing machinery deciding whether displaced people live in dignity with services and a path home — or in neglected camps that become permanent poverty traps.
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