Trends in Urban Humanitarian Context in Asia _2014

Trends in Urban Humanitarian

Context in AsiaBy Sajjad Mohammad Sajid ,

Regional Humanitarian Coordinator - Asia

• Why Urban humanitarian discussion on WASH and EFSVL?

• How WASH and EFSVL would look like in in case of Urban response?

Why Urban Humanitarian ?????

• The 2010 Haiti Earthquake made the challenges presented by Urban Disaster Impossible for any one to ignore

• It forced the humanitarian sectors to question many standards , practices and assumptions

• There are important details that make the disaster response different in cities

The things we know about rural crises don't apply in urban contexts...

Higher political density, Politically active citizen and more access to informationCommunities are defined by more than where they livehuge Infrastructure More skills in the populationGovernment is closer physically and more connected politicallyExhibit visible and often extreme disparities in income and wealth

Determining beneficiaries for humanitarian programs is particularly difficult

Difficult to discern the boundaries between humanitarian and development in urban areas

Finding solutions for those displaced or otherwise affected by emergencies may not be more difficult in urban than rural settings, but it involves a unique set of challenges.

Often conflict situations and natural disasters converge in cities

Urban and Rural population growth

Urban agglomerations by size class and potential risk of multiple natural disasters, 2025

• Since 2007-08 more than 50% are urban; by 2030 60%• Global trend is changing the crisis landscape- vulnerability, and humanitarian need

Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division: World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision.

In 2013 Asia recorded 156 disasters, that affecting 86.9 million individuals in Asia (80% of total world victims)

By 2050 Asia could, account for more than half of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP), trade and investment, and enjoy widespread affluence.

Asia is still home to over two-thirds of the world’s poor

Asia’s economic growth has lifted millions of people out of poverty, its benefits have not spread equally.

Only nine countries in the Asia Pacific regional are still classified as LDCs, More MIC’s

By 2025, the majority of Asia’s population will be urban, by 2030 -7 out of 10 urbanite will be from Asia, 2050 , 63 % of world urban population will be from Asia

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2015, 22 cities with populations over 10 million. 17 will be in developing countries, 13 in the Asia

Current Humanitarian Interventions

The Paradigm Shift….

1. Household to Neighborhood based approach

Fewer household level production system

Interconnected water and sanitation infrastructure

2. Urban Livelihoods and governance

Focus is on to earn money

Regulatory barriers

3. The Importance of Cash and Market

Market as driver of economic recovery

Private Sector

4. Use of Smart Technology

Mobile phone, Banks , total innovations

5. Women at the centre of humanitarian interventions

Some questions for deliberations

• How WASH would look like in in case of Urban response?

• How EFSVL would look like in in case of Urban response?

• What are the main challenges to the Urban preparedness and response work for WASH and EFSVL?

• What are the main opportunities to the Urban preparedness and response work for WASH and EFSVL?

• What Capacity, Skill and Competencies are needed to respond to urban humanitarian challenges in context of WASH and EFSVL?

Trends in Urban Humanitarian Context in Asia _2014

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