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Words into Action: Children and Youth - Section 1

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Introduction

Engaging Children and Youth offers four key principles to guide Disaster Risk Reduction action, specifically child and youth rights, gender equity, a lifecycle approach and inclusion. This collection is 1 of 5 connected to the WiA guide.

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Documents and publications
2021

After the disaster: Recovery for Australia’s children

This report describes the challenges that many of Australia’s children and young people face as a result of where they live, calling for more support for them before, during and after disasters, and an urgent review of government policies.
United Nations Children's Fund - Australia
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Updates
21 March 2021

New report shows children are forgotten in bushfire recovery

More needs to be done to support children and young people before, during and after disasters and emergencies in Australia, a report has found.
United Nations Children's Fund - Australia
Updates
21 December 2020

Climate risks to health set to worsen inequity, harm children

From poor families in flood-prone homes to women required to cover up in extreme heat, climate change will hit the health of vulnerable groups the hardest, warns Kristie Ebi
Thomson Reuters Foundation, trust.org
Documents and publications
2018

Children’s rights in disasters information sheet

During 2017 and 2018, the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights (CCJHR) in the School of Law, University College Cork and the Irish Red Cross Society have been working in partnership to undertake a series of information and awareness raising events

University of Cork Ireland - Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights Irish Red Cross
Documents and publications
2015

Realising children’s rights in a changing climate

This Children in a Changing Climate coalition report argues that children should be a focus of efforts to address climate change and play an active part in the decisions that shape their present and future. 

In developing countries, climate change is

Plan International United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York) Save the Children International World Vision International - South Asia & Pacific Regional Office ChildFund Alliance
Documents and publications
2009

Safety with dignity: A field manual for integrating community-based protection across humanitarian programs

This field manual aims to contribute to international efforts to improve the protection of individuals and communities at risk in disasters, conflicts, displacement and protracted crisis contexts. The need for this manual on community-based protection was

ActionAid - Australia
Educational materials
2015

I am safe. We are safe: A children's guidebook to our rights to survive, adapt to and recover from emergencies and disasters

This guidebook is intended for boys and girls aged 10 to 17 years old and will teach children their rights, specifically in situations of emergency and disaster, and will help children participate in reducing the dangers they face.

The illustrations

Save the Children - Philippines
Documents and publications
2010

Child rights and climate change adaptation: voices from Kenya and Cambodia

This report examines how children’s voices are represented and heard in climate adaptation and disaster risk reduction policy and decision-making spaces and how this process can best be facilitated and promoted. The report addresses children in Kenya

Plan International Institute of Development Studies

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