Handbook
This Handbook provides guidance to humanitarian agencies on how to support humanitarian action through community based capacity development. The Handbook was commissioned by the “IASC Task Force on Meeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas” when it – based on evidence from a series of case studies – noted the lack of guidance in community based support. The IFRS and UNICEF were then tasked to analyse “good practices, gaps and develop guidance for community-based humanitarian support and capacity-building in urban areas - including for host families”. The Handbook, is intended for any humanitarian worker in urban areas and particularly those of the IASC members as to ensure coheviness and compatability in community based humanitarian programming in urban areas. The urgency of efficient humanitarian action in urban areas is amplified by the fact that by 2030 the urban population is predicted to exceed five billion people. Eighty percent (80%) of these urban dwellers will reside in towns and cities of the developing world and many of them will live in extreme urban poverty making them particularly vulnerable in humanitarian situations.
Resource collections
- Evaluating humanitarian action
- Locally led 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
