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From ‘Victims’ to ‘Actions’—Making

children participate in the DRM

CHILD CENTRED

APPROACH TO DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT

Plan Pakistan

Oct ‘09

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About Plan •Plan International is an international humanitarian,

child centered community development organization. It supports development interventions in five domains• Health, • Education, • Habitat, • Livelihoods and • Building Relationships through sponsorship between the developing and

developed countries. •Globally, Plan has more than 8,000 staff members

and an annual budget of US$ 700 million. •With over 70 years of experience in development and

through a network of 66 countries, Plan’s program covers 49 countries and benefits around six million children in Africa, Asia and Latin America

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Disaster Risk Management

•Early warning•Establishing culture of safety

and safe standards•Building awareness of risk

and culture of safety•Reducing immediate risks

and unsafe conditions•Reducing underlying risks

•Address disaster risk in development •Establishing capacity to respond

•Preparing to respond

Disaster Risk Reduction

•Rescue •Relief

•Recovery•Reconstruction•Rehabilitation

•ProtectionHumanitarian Response

Conflict mediationPeace-building

Conflict managementProtection

Governance

Conflict risk management

Plan’s Approach To DRM

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WHAT IS CHILD CENTRED DISASTER RISK REDUCTION?

•Working with children and youth and helping to make their voice heard to build community resilience to disasters

•Supporting children and youth to learn about disaster risks and take action to reduce them

•Promoting the voice and agency of children on DRR within their communities and local, national and global networks

•DRR within DRM that is sensitive to the rights, needs and concerns of children

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Thematic Area Key Elements of a Child Centred

Approach to DRRGovernance • Participation

• Organisational development• Resource development• Partnerships• Advocacy

Risk Assessment and Planning

• School and community vulnerability and capacity assessments

• School and community DRR and contingency planning

Knowledge and Education

• Awareness raising and capacity building

• DRR in the curriculum• Research and learning

Risk management & vulnerability reduction

• Small scale risk reduction activities• Mainstreaming into child centred

development programmes

Disaster preparedness and response

• Preparedness activities• Disaster response• DRR in disaster recovery

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Organizing children as partners of Child-Centered Disaster Risk Reduction (CC-DRR)•Get the children organized and strengthened their organizations (formal or informal)

•Consciousness of the adults to recognize and support the children’s agenda

•Develop a sense of belongingness and comfort among children

•Establish confidence among children—can freely express themselves (may start with very simple form of play)

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Equipping and Development of Skills among Children and Youth•Consultation sessions with children and youth

•Confidence Building and Team Building Exercises

•Search and Rescue

•First Aid/Basic Life Support

•Rope Work Techniques and Basic High Angle Rescue Operations

•Emergency Drills and Rehearsals

•Theater Workshops and Productions on DRR with Child Protection and Participation Themes

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Involving Children and Youth during Emergencies, Disasters and Disaster Risk Reduction Programming

•Search and Rescue –

•Data Gathering with the youth and adults – DNCA (Disaster Needs Capacity Assessment) • Most children in the local areas know the best terrain, those of

their own age or sector thus, prioritize the children• The have the highest energy level and time during the process

•Relief packaging, distributions and monitoring

•Setting up of Learning Centers with the support of the teachers and parents

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Theater shows or street plays with community reflections and sharing

•Issues are raised by the children like evacuation situation - lack of water, poor coordination, child protection and gender and protection issues, sanitation etc.

•Appreciation of both children and parents

•A form of resource mobilization for the children

•A creative expression of children’s voice

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‘WITH’ vs. ‘for’

•Child-Centered Disaster Risk Reduction is not just something

focused for the children as recipients of the program or projects but

considers children as partners and partakers of development

expressing their voice and in decision making …

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Children doing ‘Participatory Risk Assessment and Planning’

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Disaster Risk Reduction through Theater

Theater members co-facilitate psycho-social Theater members co-facilitate psycho-social activities and stress debriefing with children activities and stress debriefing with children and adolescents in disaster areasand adolescents in disaster areas

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Children helping to re-establish their Children helping to re-establish their temporary schoolstemporary schools

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Hazard mapping in the Schools and in the Communities

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River Protection, through tree planting, tree growing and protection of trees by the children themselves

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Organized School and Community Child leaders doing their weekly Coastal Clean up in Libagon, So. Leyte

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Earthquake Drills and Evacuation Exercises

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Children are at the heart of

everything we do…

Many Thanks…