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- Summary:
- This document is an evaluation of Plan International’s five-year child-centered disaster risk reduction (DRR) initiative. Its recommendations are essential for practitioners, donors, and policymakers involved in humanitarian efforts, and seek to reduce the negative impacts that disasters have on development. According to the report, it is essential that efforts to promote sustainable development and poverty reduction take into account the increasing vulnerability to disaster that children face as the frequency and intensity of natural hazards rise. Child-centered DRR involves reorienting our perspective away from treating children as passive victims to viewing them as agents of change. It emphasizes taking into account their specific vulnerabilities, respecting their views and rights, and empowering them to make their lives and communities more resilient to disasters. This understanding of the power of children is particularly critical considering that there are 2.2 billion people under the age of 18 globally. The next section of the document discusses Plan International’s Child-centered DRR programs between 2005 and 2010 in El Salvador, the Philippines, Sierra Leone, Ecuador, Cambodia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and the Dominican Republic. Programs consisted of working with youth groups to build awareness, teaching them how to conduct hazard and vulnerability assessments, incorporating DRR into curricula and teacher training, developing school safety manuals, along with opening national and global channels to the youth so they can voice their DRR concerns. This section is concluded with a presentation of the general results of these programs. Implementing Child-centered DRR entails working with existing youth groups, engaging parents, community leaders, and civil society to secure their active support in creating an enabling environment for child participation, and promoting dialogue between adults and children to foster intergenerational learning. The program’s fundamental belief is that the youth have a right to participate in decisions that affect their lives and thus the right to participate in DRR activities. Child-centered DRR is not only valuable because children are the most vulnerable groups and tend to make up 50 to 70% of the societies most at-risk to disasters, but also because children are more likely to develop a comprehensive understanding of risks, more likely to communicate these risks to their communities, and also more likely to be innovative in fostering the changes needed to mitigate against and adapt to risks. ( English,English,English )
- Subject:
- Disaster Risk Reduction
- Scope and Content:
- Introduction p. 2; What is Child-centred Disaster Risk Reduction? p. 3; Learning from experience p. 4; Results p. 6; Why is Child-centred Disaster Risk Reduction valuable? p. 9; How to implement Child-centred Disaster Risk Reduction? p. 12; In conclusion p. 15; Useful resources p. 16; Case studies: Case Study 1: Hyogo Framework Priority Area (1) – Governance p. 18; Case Study 2: Hyogo Framework Priority Area (1) – Governance p. 20; Case Study 3: Hyogo Framework Priority Area (2) – Risk Assessment p. 22; Case Study 4: Hyogo Framework Priority Area (3) – Knowledge & Education p. 24; Case Study 5: Hyogo Framework Priority Area (3) – Knowledge & Education p. 26; Case Study 6: Hyogo Framework Priority Area (3) – Knowledge & Education p. 28; Case Study 7: Hyogo Framework Priority Area (4) – Risk Management p. 32; Case Study 8: Hyogo Framework Priority Area (4) – Risk Management p. 34; Case Study 9: Hyogo Framework Priority Area (4) – Risk Management p. 36; Case Study 10: Hyogo Framework Priority Area (5) – Disaster Preparedness and Response p. 38; Case Study 11: The Contribution of DRR to Children’s Rights to Health and Education p. 40; Case Study 12: An Inclusive Approach to Child-Centred DRR p. 42; Case Study 13: Ensuring Child Rights Are Upheld in Child-Centred DRR Programming p. 44; Case Study 14: Informed Children Uphold Their Right to Participation in Global Decision Making Spaces p. 46
- Citation/Reference:
- Antonowicz, L., Anderson, A., Wetheridge, L. (2010). Child-centered disaster risk reduction: building resilience through participation. Plan International.
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- Source Institution:
- Florida International University
- Rights Management:
- All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced
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- Resource Identifier:
- FI13010943
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