This Initial Strategy Paper on “Meeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas” (MHCUA) is the culmination of an intensive 6-month inter-agency process by the IASC Task Force on MHCUA comprising 26 UN agencies, NGOs and the Red Cross Movement lead by UN-HABITAT.
The Paper defines a comprehensive set of rapid urbanization and humanitarian thematic challenges in urban areas that are relevant to humanitarian actors and includes a set of 4 main recommendations and 10 proposed actions.
Resource collections
- 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