Shelter Centre is a Swiss humanitarian NGO that works to support bodies involved in the shelter of populations affected by conflict and natural disaster, stating that is supplies collaboration, consensus, and capacity but does not implement operations directly.

After developing technical training with the RedR UK and India, the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, the International federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and the UNHCR, in 2011 Shelter Centre led the development of CORE Workshops, funded by ECHO and DFID.

In accordance with its mission, Shelter Centre is an active partner in five of the global humanitarian coordination clusters of the IASC, Camp Coordination and Camp Management (CCCM), Early Recovery, Shelter, Protection and Water and Sanitation Hygiene (WASH).

Hosted initially by the University of Cambridge from its foundation in 2004, Shelter Centre developed from an earlier initiative, ShelterProject.org, which undertook research and development on sector standards, equipment and technical guidance, including Transitional Settlement: Displaced Populations.

In 2006, after having attained five years programme funding from DFID, Shelter Centre activities were hosted under a two-year agreement by IFRC; Shelter Centre subsequently transitioned from being a UK NGO to a Swiss NGO in summer of 2008, relocating to Geneva.