Children and youth

Strategies and approaches to empower children and youth and engage them as actors and contributors in DRR and resilience-building policies, programmes and strategies.

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The activity was carried out first in the classroom where children were allowed to express their experience living with flood through drawings and artistic expression.
Global Resilience Partnership
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This document outlines examples of Save the Children’s experience with child-centred early warning systems, linked to the four pillars of the Early Warning for All initiative.
Child studying at school in the Philippines
Over 26 million enrolled students in the Philippines are confronted with the multifaceted impacts of climate change, including the possibility of El Nino bringing intolerable heat, more powerful typhoons, and limited access to water for basic needs.
Save the Children - Philippines
Two proud African girls carrying heavy household items on their head
Multiple crises worsened by climate change threaten lives of 45 million children
United Nations Children's Fund - Regional Office, Eastern and Southern Africa
A mother-of-four from the Aban Jotar village, Sindh, Pakistan cradles her toddler while her husband works in the nearby fields,
As anecdotal evidence of low birth weight and pre-term labour increases, doctors are embarking on a first-of-its-kind study across Sindh to determine the effect of heat during pregnancy.
The Third Pole
A Vietnamese school girl bikes through the flooded streets in Ho Chi Minh wearing her school uniform.
A recent paper published in Nature Climate Change reviewed studies linking climate change-related events or “climate stressors” to education outcomes.
Conversation Media Group, the
Working in extreme heat can double the risk of stillbirth and miscarriage for pregnant women, according to new research from India.
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
Turkish schoolgirls in uniform walking in a street
Natural hazards have a devastating effect on children’s education. Through its Global Program for Safer Schools (GPSS), the World Bank works hand-in-hand with client countries to ensure the resilience of school infrastructure.
World Bank, the

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