Humanitarian Exchange 35: Humanitarian Action in Urban Contexts

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?