An action-oriented roundtable to discuss ways in which the humanitarian community can better apply learning from research and experience to improve humanitarian action in urban areas.
Summary of Key Questions:
- Are urban and rural responses really that different?
- What capacity skills and competencies are needed to respond to urban challenges?
- How are urban, rural and conflict/violence issues linked?
- What are the principles that define the relationship between NGOs, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and national authorities?
- What are the limits of urban response work?
- How do we measure quality in urban contexts?
- What are the ideal targeting and mapping methods?
- How will technical areas such as Shelter and WASH work in urban response scenarios?
- Can existing urban programmes be scaled up?
- Will the internal structure of agencies change to respond to urban challenges?
Resource collections
- Evaluating humanitarian action
- 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