1. Urban Emergencies: Defining and Setting the Agenda Multi Stakeholder Workshop UNHabitat UNICEF Global WASH Cluster Principle Outcomes Recap, 19 th 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: 1.Take stock of existing assessments methodologies, improve assessments to understand pre and post crisis urban contexts including capacity assessment, satellite mapping 2.Planning for skills gaps and partnerships 3.Understanding urban stakeholders, connectivity and capacities for urban responses 4.Improve coordination of urban response at national/local level (territorial, area based) 5.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: 6.Articulating value added of WASH emergency response to urban response and identifying actions/activities for response and recovery (multi agency learning/cases) 7.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 9.Donor engagement in taking this agenda forward 10. 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