Transcript VALIDATION: PRESENTATION 1: Introduction

Plan
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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Plan’s Approach To DRM
•Rescue
•Relief
•Recovery
•Reconstruction
•Rehabilitation
•Protection
Humanitarian Response
Conflict mediation
Peace-building
Conflict management
Protection
Governance
Conflict risk
management
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•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
Disaster Risk
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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
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concerns of children
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Thematic Area
Key Elements of a Child Centred Approach to
DRR
Governance
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Participation
Organisational development
Resource development
Partnerships
Advocacy
Risk Assessment and
Planning
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School and community vulnerability and
capacity assessments
School and community DRR and contingency
planning
Knowledge and
Education
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Awareness raising and capacity building
DRR in the curriculum
Research and learning
Risk management &
vulnerability
reduction
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Small scale risk reduction activities
Mainstreaming into child centred development
programmes
Disaster
preparedness
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and response
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Preparedness activities
Disaster response
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Organizing children as partners of ChildCentered Disaster Risk Reduction (CCDRR)
• 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
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Theater members co-facilitate psycho-social activities
and stress debriefing with children and adolescents
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Children helping to re-establish their temporary
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…
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Many Thanks
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