Meeting the Urban Challenge - a new ALNAP paper

We are pleased to share with you Meeting the Urban Challenge: Adapting humanitarian efforts to an urban world, a paper based on the discussions held at the 27th ALNAP Meeting and on a review of recent literature on humanitarian responses to urban crises.

The paper considers how the nature of urban space and of urban populations influences disasters in cities and outlines how the humanitarian community is adapting to address the challenges posed by urban areas.

The paper proposes a number of ‘next steps’ for the humanitarian community, such as:

1. Establishing clear definitions of ‘urban crisis’ by agencies
2. Determining whether current levels of resources are appropriate, or need scaling up
3. ‘Stress-testing’ existing policies standards to ensure that they are relevant and useful for urban disaster engagement
4. Filling knowledge and skills gaps by training, recruitment, strategic partnerships or stand-by agreements
5. Developing better methods and tools for urban assessment and analysis
6. Establishing a forum for sharing and dissemination of best practice and tools related to urban crises and ensuring the dissemination of learning
7. Trialling new innovative approaches in ‘small’ urban crises to increase effectiveness when responding to larger crises in the future.

Please download the paper here. Spanish and French versions of the paper will be made available within the next few weeks.

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