Initial Strategy Paper: Meeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas

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.