This report describes Concern Worldwide’s approach to disaster risk reduction (DRR) in urban contexts.
This context was chosen to showcase Concern’s approaches to addressing hazards common to urban areas – conflict, criminality, discrimination and marginalisation, unemployment, price spikes, contagious diseases, floods, and fires.
To outline how Concern reduces risk in urban contexts, this report compares Concern’s work in four different urban areas: Port au Prince, Haiti; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Nairobi, Kenya; and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Concern’s work in these areas falls into three categories: preparedness and response to crisis; direct services provision; and building social inclusion. These categories are interrelated yet distinct, and interventions need to be integrated with each other.
Resource collections
- 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
