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Targeting Guidance for Urban Humanitarian Response

21 Nov 2016
A Review of Needs Assessment Tools, Response Analysis Frameworks, and Targeting Guidance for Urban Humanitarian Response This desk review was produced by the Stronger Cities Initiative Consortium, which is part of the Urban Crises Learning Fu...
Report, Research, Risk Assessment, Urban Resilience
Report, Research

A review of context analysis tools for urban humanitarian response

21 Nov 2016
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, Risk Assessment, Urban Resilience
Report, Research

Stepping back Understanding cities and their systems

21 Nov 2016
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...
Report, Research, Urban Resilience
Other type of resource

Facebook crisis hubs

13 Nov 2016
Building on the success of its Safety Check tool, Facebook is develop new features to enable local users to connect with each other during crisis events through local ‘crisis hubs’. Wired magazine article — https://www.wired.com/201...
Other type of resource, Communication As Aid
Guidance material

City strength diagnostic : methodological guidebook

08 Nov 2016
The city strength diagnostic has been developed to help World Bank staff apply the city resilience framework (developed by Arup International and the Rockefeller Foundation) to World Bank operations. The city resilience framework provides a lens...
Guidance material, Urban Resilience
Guidance material

Guidelines for Resilience Systems Analysis

08 Nov 2016
This guide was developed by members of the OECD Development Assistance Committee and Experts Group on Resilience as a simple “how to” guide to allow people in the field to analyse what is needed to boost the resilience of specific groups, speci...
Guidance material, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management
Other type of resource

The New Urban Agenda

02 Nov 2016
The New Urban Agenda is the 20-year global blueprint adopted by United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development or Habitat III, which closed in Quito, Ecuador, on October 20. The New Urban Agenda envisions an urban paradigm shi...
Other type of resource, Urban Resilience
Report

Getting to Europe the ‘WhatsApp’ way

25 Oct 2016
RMMS/Danish Refugee Council (2016): Getting to Europe the ‘WhatsApp’ way.The use of ICT in contemporary mixed migration flows to Europe. The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and social media became a key characteristic ...
Report
Other type of resource

RCRC Position Paper for the Habitat III Conference

20 Oct 2016
Focuses on humanitarian crisis and cities and how the Movement’s work links up to the New Urban Agenda
Other type of resource, Urban Resilience
Guidance material

Resilience Academy

18 Oct 2016
The Rockefeller Foundation has been working with HR&A Associates to develop a workshop-based Resilience Academy that they have offered to local governments in the United States. The Academy brings together mulit-disciplinary teams of stakeholder...
Guidance material, Resilience and Disaster Risk Management, Urban Resilience

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