Knowledge resources for child centered disaster risk reduction in India

This issue of Southasiadisasters.net compiles practices, lessons learnt and innovations that have taken place in India and in South Asia on the issue of protecting children from disasters.

Exposure to natural hazards and ensuing disasters add another dimension of distress and deprivation to the already precarious lives of the children in India. Due to their physical, mental and social condition, Children bear a disproportionate burden of the impacts of disasters. Some of the adverse impacts of disasters on children include death, injury, disruption of education, separation from parents and caregivers, psychological trauma, trafficking, violence, trafficking and sexual abuse.