Children and youth

The IDEP Foundation uses puppet shows in Bali to design local contextual training for community-based disaster risk reduction (DRR). Using traditional wisdom in local language that people can relate to and regional jokes, the NGO delivers messages that are easily understood and retained by rural village audiences, engaging and training the youth.

This document reports challenges, constraints and achievements for a school-based Disaster Risk Reduction program in the districts Jaffarabad and Naseerabad in Pakistan. The aim of this long-term project is to enhance the awareness, basic understanding

When a natural disaster hits an SOS Children’s Village, the ability of its infrastructure to resist the forces of nature is crucial to keep the children and staff safe. As the construction standard of the SOS Children's Village is high, no fatalities due to natural disaster have been reported in the history of the organisation.

This document reports on the hazard risk assessment of 100  schools in three focused districts in Balochistan: Quetta, Jaffarabad and Naseerabad. During a span of two months (Oct and Nov 2016),  child-centered hazard risk assessments took place with the

This report details the impact of climate change on children in Bangladesh. It begins with a review of the country's disaster profile with a discussion on the impacts of climate change. The impacts on children are presented with sections on education

Shichigo Elementary School in Japan is developing a national curriculum on disaster preparedness based on its first-hand experiences with the 2011 Japan earthquake. Children learn how to prepare and save themselves when an earthquake strikes through fire drills and exercises stressing the importance of protecting themselves at all times and being aware of their surroundings.

Teaching children how to prepare for disaster helps improve the knowledge of their parents and teachers too, a Te Papa study has found. Te Papa market researcher Edith MacDonald surveyed 432 students from nine Wellington primary schools who attended a disaster education programme at the museum.

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net focuses on the 2016 Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) which has provided a clear path for building resilience at the global, regional and local levels. It was the first important