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Displaying 15 of about 406 resultsIn this general comment, the Committee emphasizes the urgent need to address the adverse effects of environmental degradation, with a special focus on climate change, on the enjoyment of children’s rights, and clarifies the obligations of States to address environmental harm and climate change. The Committee also explains how children’s rights under the…
This spotlight seeks to include data on climate change, finance policy and outcomes for children, including data on SDG progress and government spending on education, health, social protection and food security and nutrition. Save the Children’s series of National Data Snapshots exploring data on the climate and inequality crisis is a collection of coun…
This report notes that children are particularly vulnerable to the impacts of heatwaves, putting them at risk of serious illness including heatstroke. Around half of children in Europe and Central Asia – or 92 million – are exposed to high heatwave frequency, according to an analysis of the latest available data from 50 countries published today by UNIC…
This simulation game from the UNISDR involves five scenarios requiring players to save lives by building upon an established community and providing defences and upgraded housing to prepare for an inevitable disaster. Each scenario can be played on easy, medium or hard difficulty levels, and takes between 10 and 20 minutes, depending on the disaster and…
Prepare with Pedro is a free youth preparedness program created by the American Red Cross. This resource is designed to teach young children and their families how to stay safe during disasters and emergencies through fun activities such as crosswords, coloring pages, matching games, and more.The activity book is available for digital download in s…
This study aims to understand how climate-related risks and hazards are reshaping traditional avenues of job entry and employment, particularly for young people in Pakistan. This brief is aimed at policymakers, academia, international/non-governmental organizations (I/NGOs) and civil society groups, who can use these messages to develop and implem…
This report notes that there were 43.1 million internal displacements of children linked to weather-related disasters over a six-year period – the equivalent to approximately 20,000 child displacements per day. Almost all – 95 per cent – of recorded child displacements were driven by floods and storms. The publication analyses the most common weather-re…
Resilience is a process in which communities collectively respond to significant events, using various coping and adaptive capacities. This scenario has mobilized reflections and strategies on the need to build resilient and regenerative cities with the capacity to recover from disasters and sustainably adapt to changes. The ecosystemic view of resilien…
This report provides yet more evidence that children are on the front lines of the climate crisis. It is a follow-up to the 2021 report, The climate crisis is a child rights crisis: Introducing the children’s climate risk index, which provided a picture of children’s exposure to and vulnerability to climate shocks and stresses, showing how climate…
The “ChYResilience Project – The role of children and youth in building a resilient society” commenced on 1 September 2020 and ended on 30 June 2022. Funded by the Swedish Institute, the Project aimed to empower children and youth to play an active role as contributors to societal resilience and to remove barriers to their active involvement in preventi…
This brief aims to spark conversation on the critical connection between climate, mobility and childhood – and its implications for policy and investment. By looking at current knowledge, where the worst impacts of climate change, fragility and conflict overlap, and where child mobility is both a consequence and a coping strategy, a clearer picture is o…
This paper attempts to establish an evidence base for the effectiveness of child-centred adaptation actions. The assessment prioritised the four most effective adaptation actions and analysed their efficacy in terms of cost effectiveness, scalability, sustainability, contextual relevance, innovativeness and gender-differentiated impact.
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This is a leaflet of Hellenic Earthquake Planning and Protection Organization (OASP) addressed to students, with guidelines on earthquake protection issues available in Greek and French.
The guidance in this handbook provides organisations with high-level principles and strategies to design, implement and evaluate learning programs and initiatives for young people. It provides a context for youth engagement and learning communities as part of a broader community engagement and capacity-building strategy to reduce disaster risk and enhan…
This study aims to conduct rigorously designed research on DRR education for children in Bangladesh by involving children’s active input and participation. In so doing, it aims to identify the specific elements of the DRR education programs for children that produce positive outcomes. Another aim is to examine implementation factors, including those str…