Children and youth

The photo of schoolgirls, wading through knee-deep floodwater at a school in Bangladesh to attend classes, spoke more than a thousand words. Education in emergency deserves more attention in Bangladesh, one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. Children - comprising 39.7% of the population - have to bear a disproportionate brunt of its effects.

“Stop Disasters” is a UNISDR disaster simulation game for children, who are asked to plan a safe environment - an often overlooked role for this population. The aim of introducing disaster risk reduction and climate friendly curriculum is not only to train children, but also to introduce behavior change in next generations to act responsibly and environmentally friendly.

In an attempt to avoid large-scale casualties during earthquakes, Dipecho - the disaster preparedness programme of the EU’s humanitarian aid and civil protection operations - has devised a training programme in primary and secondary schools in Bangladesh. The move follows major earthquakes that have killed thousands of young people globally in school buildings.

The United Nations Population Fund has prepositioned life-saving Reproductive Health (RH) Kits and Dignity Kits in various regions and districts of Nepal. Limited access to reproductive health and gender-based violence services puts the lives of many women and babies at high risk during emergencies. Thus access to information and basic hygiene supplies are life-saving.

This paper presents the education kit entitled “Riskland: the fun way to learn how to prevent disasters” which was created in 2002 by the Latin American and the Caribbean Offices of the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), and the

This paper reviews earthquake education materials, pre-school activities, school curricula initiatives and related teacher trainings in Iran and discusses their strengths, as well as challenges and effectiveness of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) on

Five new bean varieties bred with high iron and resilience to the impacts of drought have been released in Uganda for the first time, as a cheap source of nutrition for poorer communities. Iron deficiency is the world’s leading nutritional ailment. The varieties were released as part of the government’s strategy to tackle malnutrition and reduce anemia in the country.

This paper includes analysis, synthesis and propositions for the improvement of the current situation related to natural disaster issues in the education process in Serbia. The authors focus on curricula in geography as well as policy documents such as