Objective
The challenge posed by urban vulnerability is immense and is being compounded by rapid unplanned urbanisation, climate change and resource pressures. While the realisation that there is a fundamental shift in the landscape of crises to cities is no longer contested, aid actors are nonetheless grappling with the complexities of adapting their approaches to the urban context. The Preparedness and Resilience to address Urban Vulnerability (PRUV) Consortium aims to inform the pressing need to reshape how humanitarian action and development aid is undertaken in urban areas to address the challenge posed by urban vulnerability.
Assembled within the PRUV Consortium is an exciting mix of actors with considerable experience and expertise in urban contexts that will transcend disciplines and sectors to frame a new resilience and preparedness paradigm to respond to urban challenges. It seeks to combine existing best practice with innovative thinking and technology to challenge current state of the art thinking in order to arrive at a novel approach with affected urban populations at the centre.
By combining legal, social, cultural, political and public health perspectives in a holistic manner, considerable purchase is added to the research around preparedness and resilience, which, while not new within the aid sector more generally, has not been focussed sufficiently on the urban context to date. The opportunities to carry out the research in test-bed sites in Africa, Asia and Latin America adds to the potentially broad utility and transferability of the findings globally.
Fields of science
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencespublic health
- social sciencessociologygovernance
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical policiescivil societynongovernmental organizations
- medical and health scienceshealth sciencesnutrition
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes
Programme(s)
Coordinator
4 Dublin
Ireland
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Participants (6)
44801 Bochum
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9712CP Groningen
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48007 Bilbao
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D02 RV08 Dublin
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
2 Dublin
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GU21 5BH Woking
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Partners (4)
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
55281 Yogyakarta
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
110911 Bogota
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Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
Participation ended
12810 Jakarta
Partner organisations contribute to the implementation of the action, but do not sign the Grant Agreement.
00100 Nairobi
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