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Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009
Meeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas (MHCUA) Draft Assessment 02.10.2009Tab Ip of ContentsChapter 1- Introduction (to be developed after 4*h Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009h TF meeting)Chapter 2- The challenges of rapid urbanization and the potential for humanitarian crises2.0 Introduction2.1Rapid urbanization and poor urban governance: A recipe for crisis2.2The evidence: Global urbanization trends and regional patterns2.3Correlating urbanization, governance and disas Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009ter patterns2.4Types of crises caused or exacerbated by urbanization2.5Institutional complexity and urban governance challenges for humanitarian respoInformation Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009
nse2.6Preparedness and risk reduction2.7The humanitarian consequences of urbanization: Overall conclusions and implications for IASCChapter 3- OperatiMeeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas (MHCUA) Draft Assessment 02.10.2009Tab Ip of ContentsChapter 1- Introduction (to be developed after 4*h Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 20093.2Institutional challenges for humanitarian agencies in urban settings - dilemmasand opportunities3.3Thematic and sectoral challenges for humanitarian agencies in urban settings3.4Strategic implications and recommendations for the IASC and HumanitarianActorsChapter 4- Summary of findings (to be dev Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009eloped - If needed - after 4*h TF meeting)1Chapter 2The challenges of rapid urbanization and the potential for humanitarian crises2.0lntroductionThisInformation Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009
chapter explores how rapid, ill-managed or uncontrolled urbanization either generates or exacerbates humanitarian crises (or has an increasing potentiMeeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas (MHCUA) Draft Assessment 02.10.2009Tab Ip of ContentsChapter 1- Introduction (to be developed after 4*h Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009ute to this phenomenon, it argues that poorly managed urbanization leaves large segments of the population, especially the urban poor, extremely vulnerable to the impact of disasters, both natural disasters and complex emergencies. In this context, issues and challenges of urban governance which mig Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009ht contribute to humanitarian crises are also discussed. The regional trends and patterns of urbanization and urban governance are also examined here,Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009
as are the types of disasters and crises which could potentially result from these. Regions where rapid urbanization and natural or man-made disasterMeeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas (MHCUA) Draft Assessment 02.10.2009Tab Ip of ContentsChapter 1- Introduction (to be developed after 4*h Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009isk reduction, and a summary of implications for the IASC.2.1 Rapid urbanization and poor urban governance: A recipe for crisisAccording to the latest population data, since 2008. half of the world’s population, or 3.3 billion people, live in urban areas. This number is expected to rise to 5 billion Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009 by 2030-, and 80 per cent of these urban dwellers will live in towns and cities of the developing world. One-third of the urban population - or 1 bilInformation Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009
lion people - currently live in slums worldwide.Rural-to-urban migration is traditionally seen as the main contributor to urbanization, which can be dMeeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas (MHCUA) Draft Assessment 02.10.2009Tab Ip of ContentsChapter 1- Introduction (to be developed after 4*h Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009ience high rural-to-urban migration, but as urbanization levels increase, natural growth tends to become the predominant factor: this is the case in Latin America. Indeed. UNHABITAT’S recent reports suggest that rural-to-urban migration is no longer the main contributor to urban growth, rather, it i Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009s natural population growth which is driving urbanization, accounting for nearly 60 per cent of urban growth1 2. In addition, urban-to-urban migrationInformation Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009
is an important factor alongside rural-to-urban movement, especially in highly urbanized societies, for example in Latin America and the Caribbean. "Meeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas (MHCUA) Draft Assessment 02.10.2009Tab Ip of ContentsChapter 1- Introduction (to be developed after 4*h Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009ity of services (see Box 1), is yet another contributing factor.1 UN-HABITAT (2005b) state of the World's Cities 2006/7: The Millennium Development Goals and Urban S.mtei.nabi!tty:,3Q Years .of. Shaping the Habitat Agenda London, sterling. Earthscan for UN-HABITAT- UN-HABITAT (2008). state of the Wo Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009rlds Cities 2008/200$: Harmonious Cities. London. Sterling. Earthscan for UN-HABITAT2Box 1: Defining "urban"The United Nations defines an urban agglomInformation Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009
eration as the built-up or densely populated area containing the city proper, suburbs and continuously settled commuter areas. A metropolitan area is Meeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas (MHCUA) Draft Assessment 02.10.2009Tab Ip of ContentsChapter 1- Introduction (to be developed after 4*h Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009political jurisdiction that contains the historical city centre.However. an analysis of countries shows that different criteria and methods are currently being used by governments to define “urban". The most commonly used criteria, used by over 100 countries, include:•Administrative jurisdiction: 10 Information Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 20095 countries base their urban data on administrative criteria, limiting it to the boundaries of state or provincial capitals, municipalities or other lInformation Commons - Providing Information Services Through 2020 - FINAL DOCUMENT - Feb 17 2009
ocal jurisdictions; 83 use this as their sole method of distinguishing urban from rural.Meeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas (MHCUA) Draft Assessment 02.10.2009Tab Ip of ContentsChapter 1- Introduction (to be developed after 4*hMeeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas (MHCUA) Draft Assessment 02.10.2009Tab Ip of ContentsChapter 1- Introduction (to be developed after 4*hGọi ngay
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