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Abstract
This paper highlights the changing nature of refugee displacement and the resultant challenges in addressing the needs of refugees in urban areas. It reflects on the failures of traditional models in delivering needed services in these complex environments. It argues that current humanitarian program models are outdated, expensive, and ill-equipped for an effective response in urban areas. The article goes on to propose a myriad of new and emerging models and approaches that could increase efficiencies and enhance sustainability in humanitarian response.
Highlights
Refugees increasingly reside in urban areas, which creates both challenges and opportunities
This paper looks at why refuges gravitate to the city and why humanitarians, donors, and practitioners alike need to completely rethink service provision modalities for urban refugees
The paper concludes with the overarching humanitarian objectives of promoting resilience and restoring dignity which it claims are best achieved through facilitating urban refugee self-reliance
Summary
Refugees increasingly reside in urban areas, which creates both challenges and opportunities. This paper looks at why refuges gravitate to the city and why humanitarians, donors, and practitioners alike need to completely rethink service provision modalities for urban refugees. This rethink necessitates new models and approaches including: creating an enabling policy environment, implementing an area-based approach, using cash transfers to maximal benefit, and harnessing the economic power of women. Applying these models requires new actors and nontraditional partners as well as new approaches to funding. The premises outlined in this thought piece reflect and synthesize learning from more than 10 years of research and assessments on refugee livelihoods including in urban areas, extensive literature reviews, consultations with a myriad of experts, and findings gleaned from numerous conferences and workshops
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