Shelter Centre
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Shelter Centre is a British NGO which works to support all organisations which provide shelter to populations displaced by conflict or natural disaster.
Starting in University of Cambridge, 2004, it came out of an earlier initiative, ShelterProject.org, which undertook research into equipment and standards used in the sector. Both were conceived and run as voluntary projects by Tom Corsellis and Antonella Vitale.
Shelter Centre organises the biannual sector forum, [Shelter Meeting], maintains the [Shelter Library] and publishes policy documents and guidelines for field use. It is a non=operational aid agency.
In 2006, after having attained three years project funding from DFID, the Red_Cross_Federation, taking on the cluster lead for post-disaster shelter provision, invited Shelter Centre to work in its Geneva offices, from where it joined the Inter-Agency_Standing_Committee cluster initiative, participating in the three main clusters which include shelter.
