Thematic Focus: Urban Issues

Course:

Urban Humanitarian Emergencies Course, Cambridge, MA, 26-28 July 2013 [info]
- Registration is ongoing.

Web resources:

Good Practices for Urban Refugees [info]
- "[A]ims to support practitioners to better share and use good practice in the response to refugee needs in urban areas. In addition to good practice case studies, it includes tools, guidelines, research, media, surveys, urban strategies and other information relevant for urban programming."

Urban Refugees Debate Forum [access]
- "The idea underpinning this Forum is to establish a long lasting platform of discussions where consensual ideas will be challenged, misconceptions dislodged and the overall debate on urban displacement moved forward."

Publications:

Knowledge into Action: British Red Cross' Experiences Going Urban (British Red Cross, June 2013) [access]
- Webinar presentation.

Living in the Shadows: Who is the Guardian of Urban Refugee Rights? (ODI, June 2013) [text]

Sanctuary in the City? Reframing Responses to Protracted Urban Displacement, HPG Policy Brief, no. 52 (ODI, June 2013) [text]

Sanctuary in the City? Urban Displacement and Vulnerability: Final Report, HPG Report, no. 33 (ODI, June 2013) [text]

Urban Violence: What Role for Traditional Humanitarianism?, London, 21 March 2013 [text]
- Conference report.

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