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Learning from community planning following the Haiti earthquake
… in an extraordinary collective exercise in humanitarian community planning. Over the next seven years, these actors operationalised and … Haiti community planning archive As a contribution to the DFID-funded Urban Crises programme , IIED supported three researchers with detailed … working in and studying Haiti, and for wider reference in future urban crises. The archive and a related working paper will provide …
Project, 09 January 2020
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Grassroots insights into urban risk and resilience
… with the Centre for Community Initiatives (CCI) and the Tanzania Urban Poor Federation (TUPF) to examine multiple risks in informal … lies in its ability to circumvent the norms of conventional urban planning and design, with potential to help develop inclusive solutions … often-overlooked risks and hazards such as the impacts of ‘everyday’ disasters linked to inadequate sanitation, solid waste management, or …
Project, 20 October 2020
A resettlement site in Guiuan, in the Philippines, almost three years after super typhoon Haiyan with 'temporary' shelters that have been adapted by residents (Photo: Elizabeth Parker)
Post-crisis urban planning: lessons from Southeast Asia
… While urban planning is one of the key responsibilities of local government, in many … sufficient financial, technical and human resources to lead a complex urban planning process. There is also extra pressure after humanitarian … affected residents with opportunities to reduce the risk of future disasters through improved urban development. If humanitarian agencies …
Insight, 06 December 2017
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Urban ARK 4: Small disasters erode household resilience: the absorptive capacity of flood-prone households in Niamey, Niger
… Urban resilience is a product of the capacity of households to absorb … savings and took on debt. The brief also outlines priority areas for planning interventions and supporting resilience building for low-income … Barcena and Raphaëlla Montandon (2017), "The erosive effects of small disasters on household absorptive capacity in Niamey: a nested HEA …
Publication, 01 January 2017
Flooding in a Manila slum particularly affects street and slum children (Photo: Jörg Dietze/SuSanA Secretariat via Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
Poorest urban children failed in disasters, says report
… most vulnerable to environmental hazards, climate change and natural disasters – with girls at particular risk. But aid agencies often treat … shaping this. The majority of disaster risk reduction programmes in urban Asia fail to address this issue. "Therefore efforts must be made … vulnerable in disasters and emergencies. "Those living in overcrowded urban environments already have many hazards to contend with on a daily …
News, 03 March 2014
The April 2105 Nepal earthquake destroyed more than 500,000 buildings in Kathmandu. There was a huge international aid effort, but reconstruction has been slow (Photo: SIM Central and South East Asia, Creative Commons via Flickr)
Urban Crises Learning Partnerships
… The two partnerships, the Stronger Cities Initiative and the Urban Crises Learning Partnership (UCLP) , ran in parallel from November … respond but are not part of that system), and disaster preparedness planning (with a particular emphasis on stakeholder engagement).  … attempting to assess gaps related to the specific challenges of urban disasters. The two organisations also carried out detailed stakeholder …
Project, 11 May 2017
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Understanding children’s risk and agency in urban areas and their implications for child-centred urban disaster risk reduction in Asia
… a study that IIED undertook in partnership with Plan International on urban children’s risk and agency in four large Asian cities: Dhaka … among the most vulnerable and susceptible to environmental hazards, disasters and the impacts of climate change, primarily because of their … Yet, the majority of disaster risk reduction programmes in urban areas of Asia are dominated by preparedness, early warning and …
Publication, 01 January 2014
Families living within the 'No Dwelling Zone' in Guiuan in the Philippines one year after super Typhoon Haiyan (Photo: Victoria Maynard)
Urban planning after crisis: lessons from Southeast Asia
… works partially in cities because what makes people vulnerable in urban areas is both their household status and their reliance on … .  That means working with local governments. For them, urban planning in the short and long term is critical – for both responding to immediate needs and reducing the risk of future disasters. But local governments are all too often constrained by …
Insight, 10 November 2016
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Urban ARK work programmes and locations
… the collection of data on hazard impact and climate projections for urban planning. The use of spatial data was critical to produce risk maps. WP3: risk root cause analysis and historical urban trajectories  WP3 investigated the historical root causes of … Urban … Urban ARK work programmes and locations …
Article, 26 August 2018
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Towards more effective humanitarian response in urban areas
… Urbanization explores the growing field of humanitarian activity in urban areas of the global South. The papers showcase current and … traps in Lima calls for greater attention to the frequent small-scale disasters that affect residents more than mega-disasters. And the paper … extreme weather are compounded by insufficient attention to urban planning.~ ~In Feedback, four papers explore water and sanitation: at …
Publication, 01 October 2017