Urban Emergencies: Defining and Setting the Agenda Multi Stakeholder Workshop UNHabitat UNICEF

1. Urban Emergencies: Defining and Setting the AgendaMulti Stakeholder WorkshopUNHabitat UNICEF Global WASH Cluster Principle Outcomes Recap, 19th October 2012, Nairobi Ansa Masaud, Human Settlements Officer, Risk Reduction and Rehabilitation Branch, UN-Habitat

2. Objectives • Analyze the broader urban context in which humanitarian response is taking place and highlight learning from recent urban humanitarian crises • Define what role traditional humanitarian actors have in urban humanitarian contexts • Identify issues, gaps and solutions in urban responses through country presentations • Define future strategic priorities and next steps on urban emergencies

3. Presentations • Urban Context and Response (UN-Habitat) • Gaza, Iraq+ (ICRC) • Phillipines (UNICEF) • Freetown (DFID) • Bam, Haiti (IFRC) • Zimbabwe (UNICEF) Participants:UNICEF, UN-Habitat, IFRC, ICRC, Oxfam, MSB, OCHA, CARE, CRS, WVI, Medical corps, Watermission, RedR, Medair, Islamic Relief, ACF Donors: OFDA, DFID, Norway

4. Key Issues • Broader urban landscape and operating context • Recognize the rural-urban difference in approaches, tools, expertise and response strategies • Understanding urban stakeholders in and beyond WASH sector and need for connectivity-fragmentation of sectors • Analyze urban context, functions, services and municipal systems • Coordination of urban stakeholders and engaging National and Local Governments • Range of resources, finance, capacity and systems available in urban areas- in need for an urban response plan to link sectors and improve connectedness of actions

5. Key Issues • Informality in urban contexts; Home owners, renters, informal tenure types e. g squatters • Expertise and skills gaps; managerial, technical, (e.g urban planning, long term recovery, finance, economy, land, urban infrastructure) • Frontloaded investment in emergency phase, no exit strategy e.g. Haiti funding data • Actions and approaches to build recovery and longer term considerations from the start Leaving behind capacity to manage and sustain

6. Principle Outcomes Agreement to take the agenda forward: • Take stock of existing assessments methodologies, improve assessments to understand pre and post crisis urban contexts including capacity assessment, satellite mapping • Planning for skills gaps and partnerships • Understanding urban stakeholders, connectivity and capacities for urban responses • Improve coordination of urban response at national/local level (territorial, area based) • Defining menu of operational options, overall strategy and approaches for various urban response contexts and actions for building basis for sustainable recovery (1$ for WASH -value for money)

7. Principle Outcomes Agreement to take the agenda forward: • Articulating value added of WASH emergency response to urban response and identifying actions/activities for response and recovery (multi agency learning/cases) • Pilot approaches (regional/city) on urban response for improving preparedness 8. Undertaking cost benefit analysis of strategies for urban funding/making smarter investments with key partners • Donor engagement in taking this agenda forward • Advocacy piece on 5 issues to consider in a humanitarian response in urban context

8. Next Steps • Draft summary of outcomes, recommendations and action points • Fine tune action plan and priorities with timelines (6 months -2 years), quick wins and long term objectives • UN-Habitat & UNICEF to circulate for inputs, comments and engagement • Mailing list to be used for circulation of meeting documents and outcomes/further input