There has been growing attention to the issue of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the 1980s onwards. Most of the attention has, however, focused on displacement in rural areas with the particular interest in camp situations. Given this narrow approach, IDP movements to urban areas remained largely neglected until recently. There are, for instance, numerous new publications on this issue, including the comprehensive background paper accomplished by UNHCR. Besides this, several new profiling exercises have been conducted on various urban contexts and novel methodologies for profiling are being developed. Also, inter-agency cooperation on urban displacement and the number of international conferences dealing with urban displacement have grown.
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Resource collections
- Somalia humanitarian response
- Sudan humanitarian response
- 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
