Children and youth

A Road Map to promote a long-term systematic approach to improving the safety of school infrastructure at risk from natural hazards.

In 2014, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) launched the Global Program for Safer Schools

In this Poverty Brief published by the Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) at the University of Bergen, Norway, the authors argue that children and youth, particularly those living in poverty, must be empowered and supported to have their

To mitigate any future disasters, a web-based application for an early warning system and a mobile-based application on road safety was launched today. Save the Children, with the support of Nokia and the Disaster Management Authority (South-East District of Delhi) have come together to use technology to minimise the impact of disasters in urban slums.

The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Kazakhstan has united efforts with partners to ensure school safety as part of a programme to support institutions and vulnerable communities in disaster risk reduction. Following a recent round-table meeting, participants made recommendations to create a unified format and a database on structural safety of schools in Kazakhstan.

The risk of dying in a hurricane or flood is lower today than it was 20 years ago, in most parts of the world. In Haiti, however, the toll of Hurricane Matthew has already reportedly passed 1,000. The issue of how to reach countries and communities left behind and struggling to reduce their disaster mortality rates was the focus of a meeting at United Nations Headquarters, held ahead of International Day for Disaster Reduction.

This publication discusses disaster risk reduction projects undertaken by Save the Children in Bangladesh. It also presents success stories of children being active agents of change; for instance in conducting community risk and resource assessments.

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The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have extended their partnership for Child Centred Disaster Risk Management to enhance the government’s existing capacity and delivery of services to minimise risks for women and children during disasters. A Pakistan School Safety Framework is being piloted across the country.

This collaboration between Lancaster University and Save the Children researched children and young people’s experiences of the UK winter 2013/14 floods. The authors used creative arts methods to work with flood-affected children and communicate their ideas to policy. Children, in fact are often ignored in disaster-related planning and policy development.