Policy and planning

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Humanitarian response

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Local and international collaboration in urban humanitarian responses: Perspectives from the Philippines, Colombia and South Sudan

Publication, 01 November 2016

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Water, crises and conflict in MENA: how can water service providers improve their resilience?

Publication, 01 October 2017

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Humanitarian response for development: lessons from Tropical Cyclone Winston

Publication, 01 June 2018

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A city-specific focus on local and international collaboration: Tacloban, Ormoc and Palo (the Philippines); Medellín (Colombia); Juba (South Sudan)

Publication, 01 November 2016

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Urban refugees in Delhi: identity, entitlements and well-being

Publication, 01 October 2017

People walk past ruined buildings

Haiti earthquake 10 years on – a new chapter in disaster response

Insight, 12 January 2020

People looking at a map

Learning from community planning following the Haiti earthquake

Archived Project

When infrastructure is not provided, or not affordable, the urban poor find their own way around the problem, as in Delhi, India, where electricity is tapped

Urban crisis response needs a humanitarian sector shake-up

Insight, 15 December 2017

David Dodman, director of IIED's Human Settlements research group, addresses the conference on urban crises (Photo: Matt Wright/IIED)

Urban crises conference: time to put learning into practice

News, 23 November 2017

Nabaa Lebanon street scene

The future of humanitarian crises is urban

Long read, 16 November 2017

Lebanon is hosting one million Syrian refugees, and around half of them are children. Most families live in makeshift shelters; some rent half-built apartments, sharing with two or three families (Photo: Russell Watkins/Department for International Development, Creative Commons via Wikipedia)

Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities

Insight, 11 May 2017

Although aid agencies provide emergency help in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, only long-term planning can deal with the wider environmental stresses (Photo: Caroline King-Okumu/IIED)

Unblocking the cycle of water stress, crises and innovation in the Bekaa Valley

Archived Project

With over half the world's refugees, such as these in Thailand, now living in large towns and cities where they are confronted by a unique set of challenges, the traditional image of life in tented, sprawling camps no longer tells the full refugee story (Photo: Andrew McConnell/Panos Pictures/IRC)

Towards a humanitarian's handbook for cities in crisis

Insight, 16 November 2016

The influx of migrants and refugees onto the island of Lesbos was met with an influx of responders from various sectors who often did not effectively collaborate early on in the response (Tyler Jump/International Rescue Committee)

Finding space for dialogue when urban crises hit

News, 26 October 2016

A local market in Kampala, Uganda. One of the winning proposals will study refugees and markets in urban Uganda (Photo: Hendrik Terbeck, Creative Commons via Flickr)

New research funded to study local markets in the context of urban crises

News, 28 September 2016

A family at the border crossing between Serbia and Croatia. Some 650,000 migrants and refugees travelled through Croatia between September 2015 and January 2016 (Photo: Meabh Smith/Trócaire, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Responding to transit refugees in Croatia

Insight, 19 August 2016

The devastation caused by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban City (Image: Gerald Paragas and Amillah Rodil)

New film tracks city's recovery from deadly typhoon

News, 07 July 2016

Clearing up after the 2015 Nepal earthquake. Women and children, the elderly and people living in informal settlements may be especially vulnerable in an urban crisis (Photo: anjetika, Creative Commons via Flickr)

New research funded on protecting the vulnerable in urban humanitarian crises

News, 23 June 2016

An image of a crowd of members of the USaid Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) team rescue a teen in the Gongabu, Kathmandu District, five days after the Nepal earthquake in April 2015 (Photo: USaid, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Collaborations in urban humanitarian response – introducing the Global Alliance for Urban Crises

Insight, 31 May 2016

An image of an open sewer in the Kibera informal settlement, in Nairobi, Kenya, Refugees in such informal settlements face even more challenges than existing habitatants to access to services, such as language barriers (Photo: Eoghan Rice/Trócaire)

Revealing the hidden refugees in African cities

Insight, 06 May 2016

An image of a deserted and war-torn street in Aleppo. Four years of fighting have left much of the Syrian city in ruins. The UN recently warned that up to 300,000 people could be left without food if the last flight route into eastern Aleppo is cut (Photo: Freedom House Salaheddin, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Responding to cities under siege

Insight, 21 April 2016

The Tanah Abang district of the Indonesian capital Jakarta has chronic traffic problems. Attempts to clear informal settlements and street vendors are frequently met with protests (Photo: Ikhlasul Amal, Creative Commons via Flickr)

Ten urban planning principles every humanitarian should know

Insight, 10 November 2015

Syria refugees in Lebanon learn how to make fishing nets, a skill which will help them find work along the northern coast (Photo: DFID, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

Why urbanisation matters in responding to humanitarian crises

Insight, 15 September 2015

A rubber boat carrying around 50 refugees arrives from Bodrum, Turkey to the Greek island of Kos (Photo: Christopher Jahn/IFRC, Creative Commons, via Flickr)

In this war of words, no one is the victor

Insight, 04 September 2015

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