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Vulnerability in Human Settlements

Explore the role of women in humanitarian disasters and challenges in Norwegian policy. Learn about urban vulnerability, UN-Habitat's perspective, and areas of intervention for vulnerability reduction or crisis response. Understand the link between emergency, reconstruction, and development phases for sustainable human settlements. Delve into reconstruction sectors like land tenure, housing, livelihoods, and critical infrastructure restoration. Discover Habitat's global strategy and programs for secure tenure, inheritance rights, and forced evictions. Enhance your knowledge on governance, financing, and investments in urban relief and sustainable development. Training on key principles promotes permanent, upgradable, and sustainable urban investments while ensuring life-saving operations are not compromised. Take an in-depth look at the transition from emergency to development phases in addressing human settlements in crisis.

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Vulnerability in Human Settlements

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  1. Vulnerability in Human Settlements • Norway – MFA Workshop on ‘Role of Women in Humanitarian Disasters Challenges for Norwegian Policy – November 1, 2006

  2. What is Urban Vulnerability? From UN-Habitat’s perspective: Land use Building Regulations Security and Rule of Law Governance Economy

  3. Vulnerability Reduction or Crisis Response? Five Areas of intervention Emergency and transitional shelter Environmental protection, remediation and clean-up Critical infrastructure Land use and occupancy rights Livelihoods

  4. Sustainable Relief and Reconstruction • UN-HABITAT’s challenge and mandate: • To Link Emergency, Reconstruction & Development Phase Activities to Provide Sustainable Human Settlements Phases: • Emergency Phase 0 – 6 m • Reconstruction Phase 0 – 24 m • Development Phase 6m  “Development begins at the beginning’’

  5. Emergency Sector Relation to Reconstruction Sectors Reconstruction Sectors Land & Housing Tenure Cadastre GIS Housing constr/upgr. Evictions IDPs 1. Emergency and transition shelter 2. Critical land use planning and rights 3. Environmental remediation/ clean-up 4. Restoration of critical infrastructure 5. Livelihoods restoration Public Works Environment Infrastructures Planning Human Cap. Safety Financing Employment Savings Credits Investments

  6. Reconstruction sectors, mirrored in Habitat’s Global Strategy & Programs Land & Housing Tenure Cadastre GIS Housing constr/upgr. Evictions IDPs Land & Housing Global Campaign of Secure Tenure Women inheritance/ownership AG on forced evictions/GLTN Cites Without Slums Program Tenure/property/rental rights Land Donor Coordination Public Works Infrastructures Planning Human Cap. Environment Safety Financing Employment Savings Credits Investments Legal reform MDG’s Services & Governance Financing & Investments Global Campaign on Urban Governance SUF - The Slum Upgrading Facility Credits Economics Urban Water & Sanitation Urban Environment Urban Safety Sustainable Relief Designed to link normative qualities to large-scale urban investments Training of LA’s

  7. Key Principles: Whenever possible humanitarian ‘investment’ should be considered permanent, up-gradable, and planned within a sustainable, long term vision In no manner should the above principle deter resources from life-saving operations Coordination, planning, integration, and delivery of emergency humanitarian operations can be undertaken now Linking emergency, reconstruction and development through a governance driven approach to initiating sustainable settlements development.

  8. Development Begins At the Beginning Thank you Human settlements in crisis: From action to policy

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