Brief: Urban Response Practitioner Workshop

In September 2015, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) hosted a practitioner workshop entitled “Meeting Needs in a Context of Urban Displacement in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)” in Istanbul, Turkey. The workshop is part of the Urban Crises Program, which is divided into two components: learning and advocacy. The goal of the Urban Crises Program is to generate practical evidence as to what constitutes effective urban humanitarian response for both beneficiares and the places in which they live, and to use this evidence to improve humanitarian urban programming and advocate for innovative and sustainable approaches to urban response within the international community.

This brief is meant to provide an overview of the key points generally agreed upon during the workshop. The following recommendations are meant as a general overview and are the sole opinion of the Urban Crises Program project team and the IRC.