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Urban Crises Learning Fund
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IIED publishes archive on post-quake planning in Haiti
IIED is marking the ten-year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake by publishing an online archive documenting post-disaster community planning work in the city of Port-au-Prince. IIED will also launch a working paper summarising the experience gained in Haiti and host a discussion meeting later this month
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Getting Lebanon’s water flowing: using new SDG data in an urban crisis
Anna Walnycki explains how reliable, disaggregated data on water access – supported by the framework of the SDGs – could help tackle the challenges facing Lebanon's water sector
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Urban crisis response needs a humanitarian sector shake-up
From 'natural disasters' causing large-scale destruction to slow-onset crises such as droughts, through to conflict and persecution, the number of people around the world needing humanitarian assistance is growing – and increasingly, they are found in urban areas
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Water in MENA: ripple effects in times of conflict
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been hit by a wave of conflicts and crisis. A new study looks at how to improve resilience of water services in the region
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Post-crisis urban planning: lessons from Southeast Asia
New research confirms the importance of urban planning in empowering local governments and communities to manage their own recovery after a humanitarian crisis. Elizabeth Parker argues that humanitarian agencies can support the challenging planning process by sharing knowledge, experience, staff, tools and technology
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Urban crises conference: time to put learning into practice
An international conference on how best to respond to humanitarian crises in urban areas ended with calls to put research into practice and to improve engagement with local communities
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Stronger Cities Initiative
Urban crises challenge the traditional ways of working for humanitarian organisations. The International Rescue Committee, Norwegian Refugee Council and World Vision worked together to develop a suite of tools and practical guidance notes to promote improved responses to urban crises
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Urban Crises Learning Partnerships
Two learning partnerships have helped IIED to address gaps in knowledge, skills and understanding among national and international humanitarian actors and local and national governments, in order to provide a better basis on which to prepare for and respond to humanitarian crises in urban areas
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Coping with forced displacement: lessons from cities
People forced to leave their homes are often displaced for many years, and most end up in urban areas. So how can host cities become more resilient while managing such crises? A meeting last week shared learning from Africa, Asia and the Middle East, reports Diane Archer
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Using learning partnerships to support change
IIED facilitiates a number of learning partnerships as a way of generating dialogue, encouraging joint learning and agreeing approaches for positive development outcomes
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Towards a humanitarian's handbook for cities in crisis
New research from the Urban Crises Learning Fund's Stronger Cities Initiative explores the tools available to humanitarians responding to urban crises, and asks whether they are fit for purpose
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Urban planning after crisis: lessons from Southeast Asia
If humanitarian agencies are to help cities recover and rebuild after a crisis, they must work closely with local governments. A new IIED-supported research project will travel to Indonesia and the Philippines to see how it's done
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Finding space for dialogue when urban crises hit
IIED and partners hosted an event at Habitat III that focused on how to strengthen humanitarian responses to crises in urban areas. Teresa Corcoran reports back from Quito
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New research funded to study local markets in the context of urban crises
IIED has announced that five research projects in Africa, Asia and the Middle East have received funding for work to improve our understanding of the effects of urban humanitarian crises on the functioning of local markets
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New film tracks city's recovery from deadly typhoon
The documentary "Lessons from a storm" follows Tacloban City's recovery after Typhoon Haiyan
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New research funded on protecting the vulnerable in urban humanitarian crises
Seven research projects will receive funding to study how to assist vulnerable urban groups facing humanitarian crises, the International Institute for Environment and Development has announced
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Collaborations in urban humanitarian response – introducing the Global Alliance for Urban Crises
The way we prepare for and react to humanitarian crises in towns and cities will be enhanced by a more collaborative approach
