The Urban Challenge: Adapting humanitarian response to a changing world
It is a widely cited fact that we are living in a predominately urban world. Around the middle of 2008, over half of the global human population was living in cities for the first time in history. The implications of this shift are wide-ranging and have significance for all kinds of actors, not least those that are involved in the delivery of international humanitarian assistance. This concept note sets out the broad issues involved in meeting the ‘urban challenge’ and a rationale for addressing these issues in the 27th ALNAP Meeting.
Resource collections
- Evaluating humanitarian action
- Topics
- UN Habitat - Urban Response Collection
- Urban Response - Urban Crisis Preparedness and Risk Reduction
- Urban Response Collection - Community Engagement and Social Cohesion
- Urban Response Collection - Economic Recovery
- Urban Response Collection - Environment and Climate Change
- Urban Response Collection - Housing, Land and Property
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Crisis Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
- Urban Response Collection - Urban Resilience