Initial Strategy Paper: Meeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas

Publication language
English
Pages
14pp
Date published
11 Sep 2009
Type
Plans, policy and strategy
Keywords
Development & humanitarian aid, System-wide performance, Urban
Organisations
Inter Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

This Initial Strategy Paper on “Meeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas” (MHCUA) is the culmination of an intensive 6-month inter-agency process by the IASC Task Force on MHCUA comprising 26 UN agencies, NGOs and the Red Cross Movement lead by UN-HABITAT.


The Paper defines a comprehensive set of rapid urbanization and humanitarian thematic challenges in urban areas that are relevant to humanitarian actors and includes a set of 4 main recommendations and 10 proposed actions.