Resilient Cities: Bridging the Humanitarian / Development Divide
EVENT INFORMATION
Date: Thursday 11 February 2016, 9-11AM (EST)
Location: Online
The City We Need can survive, adapt, and grow no matter what type of crises, be they chronic stresses or acute shocks, it experiences. The City We Need is resilient.
World Vision International and the International Rescue Committee, representing different sides of the humanitarian-development divide, are co-organising an Urban Thinkers Campus focused on urban resilience, hosted by ALNAP. The Campus will explore the role of resiliency in bridging the humanitarian/development divide in order to achieve durable, sustainable, and multi-dimensional outcomes appropriate to the local context following urban crises.
Panelists will include representatives from World Vision International, International Rescue Committee, and the Global Alliance for Urban Crises. Together, they will explore Resilient Cities under three themes:
- Building Resilience During Crisis – What resilience-building strategies can humanitarian and local response actors employ while addressing the immediate needs of urban crises? What opportunities for resilience-building do crises present and how may we leverage those opportunities more effectively?
- Sustainable Resilience – What does sustainable resilience look like, and how can humanitarian, development, and local actors work to achieve it? How can humanitarian principles, traditionally applied during an emergency response, inform both disaster preparedness and post-disaster recovery strategies that are traditionally the purview of development actors?
- Localised Resilience – How do resilience strategies and solutions change from city to city, and how can international actors better collaborate and support local stakeholders to achieve resiliency strategies tailored to the specific risks, vulnerabilities, and development needs of local communities, especially the most marginalized?
The event will propose key recommendations to be submitted to the UN Secretariat for consideration in the New Urban Agenda, to be launched at the UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III).
Key speakers
- Filiep Decorte, Global Alliance for Urban Crises
- Gurgen Boshyan, Humanitarian Emergencies Affairs Expert, World Vision South Caucasus
- Abdiaziz B. Yusuf, Livelihoods and ERD Coordinator, International Rescue Committee Somalia
Moderators
- Aline Rahbany, World Vision International
- Samer Saliba, International Rescue Committee
How do I register?
Register for the event via ALNAP's website.
Contact information
Email Jacqueline Trieu, Knowledge Management & Project Coordinator, Centre of Expertise for Urban Programming.
URBAN THINKERS CAMPUS BACKGROUND
The Urban Thinkers Campus is an initiative of UN-Habitat conceived as an open space for debate, learning, and consensus building between urban experts to propose solutions for a better urban future. Each Urban Thinkers Campus will produce key recommendations for consideration in the New Urban Agenda, to be launched at the UN Habitat III Conference in October 2016.
