Assistance in urban areas to populations affected by humanitarian crises

These guidelines are aimed at:

Programme Managers: the document looks across sectors and offers tools for facilitating durable solutions for the entire affected population in all settlement options.

Policy makers and decision makers in clusters: this document recognises that movements of beneficiaries between various settlement, return and reconstruction options and that the many reasons for a change in location must be addressed across a humanitarian response, across all phases and within and between sectors or Clusters.

Research Teams: the frameworks set out here are designed to frame research, monitoring and evaluation of the impacts, outcomes and overspill effects of urban shelter interventions. This will feed back to inform practice through existing shelter meetings.

The document is based on practitioner experience and editing by stakeholders