Aynur Kadihasanoglu
aynur.kadihasanoglu@redcross.org
Geneva,
I work at the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Center and the American Red Cross, Global Disaster Preparedness Center (GDPC) as the Senior Urban Specialist. Focus of my work is strengthening local capacities through close collaboration with global partners and field teams and developing innovative approaches, tools and methodologies aimed at scaling up impact in urban settings. Some examples of work include starting and leading the Urban Collaboration Platform of IFRC (2015-21), leading the Coastal Cities and Coalition Program (2017-21) and managing the Extreme Heat Small grants program of the GDPC and CC (2022). My motivation is to use my educational background in city and regional planning, combined with earlier work in the development arena with the UN and the World Bank to help RCRC National Societies be confident and skilled in understanding and taking action against the compounding risks that the urban communities are facing.
Report
![Urban Perspectives: Climate Change, Migration, Planning and Financing](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
2017 New Generation of Ideas Report from Wilson Center. Recognizing the need to strengthen the ties between urban policymaking and new scholarly work on urban development, the Wilson Center’s Urban Sustainability Laboratory, USAID, the World Bank, ...
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![The Right to the City for Urban Displaced Residents of Dar es Salaam (IRC)](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This report published by IRC provides a review of the Barriers to Safe and Equal Access to the City for the Displaced Residents of Dar es Salaam. Urbanisation is changing the nature of humanitarian response. In the 21st century, the phenomenon is mos...
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![Violence in the City: A Systematic Review of the Drivers of Violence against Displaced Populations in Urban Crisis and Post-crisis Settings](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This report published by IRC provides a Systematic Review of the Drivers of Violence against Displaced Populations in Urban Crisis and Post-crisis Settings. Most urban refugees and those internally displaced are relocated to already fragile commun...
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![Building the Resilience of the Poor in the Face of Natural Disasters](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
This report published by the World Bank is a part of the Climate Change and Development Series to showcase economic and scientific research that explores the interactions between climate change, climate policies, and development. The series aims to...
Report
![Sustainable Food Systems: The Role of the City](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
There is a sense that the world food system has reached an impasse. Hunger afflicts at least an eighth of the world population (FAO, 2012), mostly in the global South, but also in the North where austerity policies – which respond to crisis by prio...
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![RCRC Urban Assessment Workshop Report June 2016](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
In early February 2016, the American Red Cross has initiated a process of taking stock of tools and approaches being used/developed for urban assessment and agree on a plan of action leading to development of an aligned Urban Assessment toolbox for N...
Guidance material
![Be Red Cross Ready!](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
Learn how easy it can be for your family to Be Red Cross Ready by completing three easy steps: Get A Kit Make A Plan Be Informed Learn more about Be Red Cross Ready program here.
Report, Research
![A review of context analysis tools for urban humanitarian response](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
The purpose of this desk review is to take stock of context analysis tools that focus on structural and systemic issues as opposed to specific individual/ households needs. This is to inform the development of an urban context analysis tool.7 The r...
Report, Research
![Stepping back Understanding cities and their systems](https://preparecenter.org/wp-content/themes/prepare-center/images/default.png)
ALNAP’s new research initiative explores how humanitarians can better understand urban contexts. It explores the concepts and terminology around ‘urban systems’ as well as how humanitarians can most effectively embed these concepts into the...