Skip to main content

Top Menu

  • FSC Contacts
  • Register
  • Login
Navigation Search
  • Home
  • Hot Spots
    • Sahel
    • South Sudan
    • Syria
  • Countries
    • Afghanistan
    • Bangladesh
    • Benin
    • Burkina Faso
    • Cameroon
    • Central African Republic
    • Chad
    • Colombia
    • Congo DR
    • Cote d'Ivoire
    • Djibouti
    • El Salvador
    • Guinea
    • Haiti
    • Kenya
    • Lesotho
    • Liberia
    • Mali
    • Mauritania
    • Nepal
    • Nigeria
    • Pakistan
    • Senegal
    • Sierra Leone
    • Somalia
    • South Sudan (Rep.)
    • Sudan
    • Swaziland
    • Syria
    • Timor Leste
    • Tunisia
    • Turkey
    • Yemen
  • Tools & Guidance
    • Cluster Approach
    • Appeals & Funding
    • Assessments & Response
    • Information Management
    • Training
    • Hand books
  • About FSC
    • Partners and Observers
    • Annual Reports
    • Global Partner Meetings
    • Meet the Team
    • Mission Reports
    • TORs
    • WORKING GROUPS
  • Current Operations
Working Group

URBAN FOOD SECURITY AND LIVELIHOODS

The purpose of the gFSC Food Security and Livelihoods in Urban Settings Working Group is to promote better coordination and implementation of good practices in urban humanitarian food security responses.

Assessment Tools

Cash and Vouchers

Cluster Approach

ALNAPLessons: Responding to urban disasters

Highlights

WSPA: The economic impacts of losing livestock in a disaster (2011)
FAO: The State of Food And Agriculture, Livestock in the balance (2009) (link)
HPG: Getting it right Understanding livelihoods to reduce the vulnerability of pastoral communities (2009) (link)
IFRC: World Disasters Report 2010 - Urban Risk (link)
ALNAP website on Responding to Urban Crises (link)

Contacts

WG Chair
  • Allister Clewlow
  • allister.clewlow@samaritans-purse.org.uk

Links

Preventionweb
ALNAP / UN Habitat – Urban Humanitarian Response Portal
ODI
FAO Food for Cities
IASC Reference Group - Meeting Humanitarian Challenges in Urban Areas
Working Group TORs on Food Security and Livelihoods in Urban Settings
CALP
ILO: Insuring livestock to protect the poor

EVENTS

May

  • «  
  •   »
M T W T F S S
 
 
1
 
2
 
3
 
4
 
5
 
6
 
7
 
8
 
9
 
10
 
11
 
12
 
13
 
14
 
15
 
16
 
17
 
18
 
19
 
20
 
21
 
22
 
23
 
24
 
25
 
26
 
27
 
28
 
29
 
30
 
31
 
 
 

FSC is funded by

List of FSC partners and observers
  • Home
  • Hot Spots
  • Tools & Guidance
  • About FSC
  • Contact