As a think tank focusing on issues relating to sustainable development and resilience studies, RDI always strives to conduct research with the primary objective to make people become more resilient. Coming from that commitment, RDI has decided to form a partnership through membership with Global Alliance for Urban Crises (GAUC). GAUC primarily commits to work together to enable urban communities, in particular, those most at risk, to prepare for, cope with and recover more quickly from the effects of humanitarian crises, including forced displacement, natural disasters, and/or armed conflicts. Therefore, we are both looking forward to advocating two principles, which are:
– Adopt urban resilience as a common framework to align human rights, humanitarian and development goals.
– Manage urban displacement as the combined human rights, development, and humanitarian concerns.
Hopefully, through this partnership, both RDI and GAUC can advocate the inclusion in the humanitarian reform agenda and transform them into concrete action.
