Humanitarian Exchange 35: Humanitarian Action in Urban Contexts

Author(s)
Various
Publication language
English
Pages
44pp
Date published
01 Nov 2006
Type
Articles
Keywords
Urban
Countries
Afghanistan, Burundi, Haiti, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kenya, Sudan
Organisations
ODI

Humanitarian action in urban contexts
2 The African Urban Risk Analysis Network (AURAN)
4 Responding to HIV/AIDS and chronic vulnerability in an urban context: lessons learned from informal street traders in Durban, South Africa
7 Urbanisation and the social protection of refugees in Nairobi
10 The MAP approach: using the market to deliver humanitarian aid in Zimbabwe
13 Humanitarian relief in chronically vulnerable urban and peri-urban contexts: responding to Tropical Storm Jeanne in Gonaives, Haiti
16 Cash relief in an urban environment: the BRCS/IRCS programme following the Bam earthquake
18 Military action in an urban area: the humanitarian consequences of Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah, Iraq
20 Climate change and disaster risk in urban environments
24 Tackling urban vulnerability: an operational framework for aid organisations

Practice and policy notes
27 Mortality surveys in the Democratic Republic of Congo: humanitarian impact and lessons learned
30 ‘It is difficult to escape what is linked to survival’: sexual exploitation and food distribution in Burundi
33 Emergency interventions in the arid and semi-arid areas of northern Kenya
35 Lessons from an ecumenical humanitarian consortium: the ACT/Caritas Darfur emergency response operation
38 NGOs as political actors: a Japanese approach?