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- Children are already playing an active role in reducing disaster and climate risk by developing risk assessments, early warning systems, community-based actions, school evacuation protocols and recovery plans. They also stand as advocates, raising awareness through social media and in-person campaigns.
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Find out how children and youth can play meaningful roles in disaster risk reduction and support the four Sendai Framework priorities.
Feb 5, 2018 · Children’s participation in disaster risk reduction yields potential benefits for children through enhanced personal development and skills, self-efficacy, and interpersonal relationships and for communities through improved social connections and networks and disaster preparedness.
- Betty Pfefferbaum, Rose L. Pfefferbaum, Richard L. Van Horn, Richard L. Van Horn
- 2018
Feb 5, 2018 · Children’s participation in disaster risk reduction yields potential benefits for children through enhanced personal development and skills, self-efficacy, and interpersonal relationships and for communities through improved social connections and networks and disaster preparedness.
- Betty Pfefferbaum, Rose L. Pfefferbaum, Richard L. Van Horn, Richard L. Van Horn
- 2018
Mar 17, 2016 · Children are often excluded from disaster risk reduction (DRR) activities, yet they are one of the most vulnerable groups to disasters. As a result, they experience physical, psychological and educational vulnerabilities.
- Chipo Muzenda-Mudavanhu
- 2016
However more can, and must, be done to support and engage children and youth around the world in DRR to fully implement the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction. The guide offers five interrelated sections with specific advice on how to support and engage children and youth in disaster risk reduction and resilience building.
As this guide illustrates, their contributions are already making a difference through more inclusive disaster-risk reduction (DRR) and resilience-building policies, better prepared households, healthier children and youth and safer communities.
Apr 7, 2020 · Engaging children and youth offers four key principles to guide DRR action – child and youth rights, gender equity, a lifecycle approach and inclusion – as well as children and youth ...
