Children and youth

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

This essay illuminates four reoccurring obstructions to transitioning the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA) into grassroots praxis and offers empirical case studies to highlight these: community ownership of risk, youth involvement, bipartisan support for

Save the Children is working to ensure that children in crisis situations, including disasters, are not deprived of their right to education. Play-based methods provide interactive ways for children to be central to their learning - as communicators of risk, act as agents of change, and active participants in decision-making processes that will ultimately affect them.

Partnering with local government agencies and mobile companies, Save the Children initiated an SMS disaster early warning system that provides weather information to the vulnerable coastal provinces of Viet Nam. This allows provincial authorities to make life-saving decisions, educational authorities to ensure children are safe, and households to better prepare.

This paper discusses current progress and challenges on the role of child-centered disaster risk reduction and resilience (CC-DRR), including disaster risk reduction and resilience education programs for children and youth. This paper focuses on the

After nearly 14,000 lives were lost, some 160,000 people were injured, and over a million homes were damaged or destroyed in the 2001 earthquake, Gujarat became one of the first states in the country to work proactively towards disaster management. Fifteen years later, mock drills are part of the regular regimen to promote earthquake safety in all schools.