@report {1382269, title = {What Practices Are Used to Identify and Prioritize Vulnerable Populations Affected by Urban Humanitarian Emergencies?}, year = {2017}, institution = {Humanitarian Evidence Programme}, abstract = {

Individuals and organizations responding to humanitarian crises recognize the need to improve urban emergency response and preparedness {\textendash} including the need to devise better methods for assessing vulnerability within urban populations.\ 

This systematic review represents the first ever attempt to systematically search, sort and synthesize the existing evidence in order to consolidate findings on the tools, methods and metrics used to identify and prioritize vulnerable people, households and communities, including those displaced within and to urban areas. It is accompanied by a stand-alone executive summary and evidence brief.\ It forms part of a series of humanitarian evidence syntheses and systematic reviews commissioned by the\ Humanitarian Evidence Programme.\ 

}, url = {https://policy-practice.oxfam.org.uk/publications/what-practices-are-used-to-identify-and-prioritize-vulnerable-populations-affec-620190}, author = {Ronak B. Patel and Jami King and Laura Phelps and David Sanderson} }