Concern Disaster Risk Reduction - Urban Contexts

This report describes Concern Worldwide’s approach to disaster risk reduction (DRR) in urban contexts.

This context was chosen to showcase Concern’s approaches to addressing hazards common to urban areas – conflict, criminality, discrimination and marginalisation, unemployment, price spikes, contagious diseases, floods, and fires.

To outline how Concern reduces risk in urban contexts, this report compares Concern’s work in four different urban areas: Port au Prince, Haiti; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Nairobi, Kenya; and Freetown, Sierra Leone. Concern’s work in these areas falls into three categories: preparedness and response to crisis; direct services provision; and building social inclusion. These categories are interrelated yet distinct, and interventions need to be integrated with each other.