Indicator Development for the Surveillance of Urban Emergencies Fact Sheet

Publication language
English
Pages
8pp
Date published
01 Jan 2014
Type
Factsheets and summaries
Keywords
Food and nutrition, Food security, Urban
Countries
Kenya
Organisations
Concern

IDSUE is an operational research initiative of Concern Worldwide, funded by the USAID Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). The project aims to develop and empirically test a set of emergency indicators for urban slums and informal settlements.

Operaional since 2011, several rounds of data from 2012 to 2013 have been taken to better understand the contribution and effects of shocks and stresses in Nairobi and Kisumu.