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Shelter Centre is a humanitarian aid agency supporting the transitional settlement and shelter of populations affected by conflict and natural disasters, supporting human rights, dignity, protection, health, environment, and livelihoods.

Shelter Centre assists the relief of suffering following conflict and natural disasters by offering to the aid community services, policy development, equipment development, and operational capacity to undertake assessments, missions and evaluations involving transitional settlement and shelter.

Shelter Centre seeks to build capacity, coordination and cooperation in the transitional settlement and shelter sector by collaborating with other humanitarian organisations and by supporting the skills development of volunteers.

Shelter Centre is registered in England as a not-for-profit limited company. Its Memorandum of Association describes the Objects of the Company as the research, development, dissemination and operational implementation of humanitarian settlement and shelter policy, best practice, equipment and field programmes, namely working independently of, in collaboration with, or consultant to other humanitarian organisations and research institutions in research, emergency and developmental contexts and the doing of all such other things which, in the opinion of the Directors, are incidental or conducive to the attainment of these Objects.

Shelter Centre was funded by Tom Corsellis, who co-founded the informal shelterproject.org group, and Antonella Vitale, who worked with the Shelter Project group on the project to develop the guidelines transitional settlement - displaced populations (to be published by Oxfam Publishing in 2005).

The work of Shelter Centre is supported by volunteers from humanitarian initiatives associated with the University of Cambridge including Engineers Without Borders (EWB) and Architectes Sans Frontierès (ASF)


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