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Urban Crises Learning Fund

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IIED's Susannah Fisher and David Dodman (top, centre) talk to stakeholders on a social learning project in Kenya (Photo: IIED)

Using learning partnerships to support change

Article, 24 April 2017

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

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

Insight, 10 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

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

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