Other than urban earthquake preparedness, humanitarian agencies have not yet focused on emergency response in urban centres. The authors of the guide offer tips to humanitarian agencies in this new environment:
1) Programming has to shift from being rural-focused, so humanitarians will now have to reach out to urban planners for effective urban programmingThe blurb:
2) Build a knowledge base identifying the differences between urban and rural programmes
3) Re-identify and reprioritize groups most at risk
4) Use of technologies such as cell phone banking and microcredit to deliver aid in an urban context
5) Ensure the creation of better linkages between city and town authorities, and strengthen delivery systems
The Guide "is an attempt to help humanitarian aid agencies look a generation into the future to begin making the necessary changes now to their thinking and organization, to ensure that they continue to deliver the right assistance and protection to the right people in the right ways.Read on! at the Tufts website.
The Humanitarian Horizons project is a futures capacity-building initiative intended to assist the humanitarian sector prepare for the complexities of the future by enabling organizations to enhance their anticipatory and adaptive capacities. Launched in October 2008, the project builds on HFP's analyses of changing dimensions of future crisis drivers, and makes more practical the exploratory futures research conducted under the Feinstein Center's 2004 Ambiguity and Change project.'
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