Area-Based Site Management Training: an overview

Intro to Area Based Site Management

• CCCM practitioners have explored, documented, and piloted new approaches to respond to recent displacement trends
• CCCM skill sets have been applied to assist displaced populations living in urban areas with a high concentration of displaced communities or in dispersed displacement settings with numerous smaller sites…
• …with access to information, protection, and services, and to involve communities in decision making and response planning processes.
• These CCCM approaches fall within the wider concept of area-based approaches.
• To help build the capacity of CCCM practitioners and stakeholders in planning and implementing Site Management Activities through area-based approaches, the Global CCCM Cluster Working Group has just released The Are-Based Site Management (ABSM) training package.

The Area Based Site Management Training

• The aim of the ABSM modules is to strengthen the operational adaptation of CCCM/Site Management activities when area-based coordination and area-based approaches are the preferred method to support displaced population and displacement affected communities.
• The ABA training package covers the following aspects:
  • What is an area-based approach (ABA);
  • Adapting Camp Management and Camp Coordination (CCCM) intervention to out of camps; or mixed displacement contexts, with a presence of both formal camps and out of camp displacement and/or presence of returnees and internally displaced persons;
  • Defining and identifying entry points or catchment areas;
  • Operational Modalities: working with Community Resource Centers and Mobile Teams;
  • Building community participation in area-based site management, including adapting communication with communities’ activities;
  • Integrating area-based site management coordination models into country level existing humanitarian coordination mechanisms.