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Urban resilience
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Lumped or Big: Effects of unconditional cash transfer fade out two years later in Urban Hiran, Somalia
Cash transfers have become a preferred approach to address household basic needs in both development and humanitarian programming in recent years. In Somalia, since the 2011 drought, unconditional cash transfers (UCT) have continued to increase as the int
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Forgotten Futures: The lives of refugee children in urban areas of Indonesia and Thailand
In two urban areas of Indonesia and Thailand, Greater Jakarta and Bangkok, live some 20,000 refugees, with limited access to basic rights, waiting for resettlement or the chance to return to their countries of origin. This study seeks to build an understa
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Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) Policy Case Study: Mainstreaming road safety education for children in South Korea
Due to a high rate of traffic facilities, South Korea intervened with mandatory traffic education in schools and extracurricular traffic education facilities in order to reduce child traffic fatalities and engage students in traffic and transportation edu
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Making Lives: Refugee self-reliance and humanitarian action in cities
This publication presents the results of a one-year research project at the intersection of urban, humanitarian and forced migration studies. As protracted displacement increasingly contributes to urban change and poses a challenge for city governance and
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Small Disasters Erode Household Resilience: The absorptive capacity of flood-prone households in Niamey, Niger
Urban resilience is defined as the ability of households to cope with external stress, and household's ability manage the risk that comes with this stressor. This brief was requested by Save the Children to investigate the adaptability of the rural food s
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Key Actions for Psychosocial Support in Flooding: Creating resilience in urban areas
This material provides key actions on psychosocial support in flooding. It focuses on flooding of urban areas and on how to strengthen the resilience of urban communities. The material helps prioritise actions and supports integrating psychosocial support
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100 Resilient Cities
100 Resilient Cities (100RC) in partnership with Save the Children, will offer critical resilience building support to 100RC’s member cities initially in Asia. Through the partnership, Save the Children will work on an individual basis with 100RC member c