Children and youth

UNICEF and the Civil Protection Department are distributing cash assistance to the 300 most vulnerable affected families, to ensure their recovery and that they do not sink into further poverty.

This study focuses on understanding these climate and environment-related risks in Lao PDR, its impact on the different sectors related to children and presents identified solutions or strategies.

Rukhsar was once hopeful about attending school, but she now faces a reality far removed from classrooms as she was married off at the age of 15. She and her family were displaced from their home on a riverine island during the devastating floods of 2015.

For nearly nine years, Doers has been engaged in disaster risk reduction, climate change adaptation, and humanitarian response actions. With a systems approach, Doers' interventions revolve around the themes of Resilience, Sustainability, and Empowerment.

Babies and young children are often at the greatest risk of heat-related mortality.

As the country reels from a suffocating heatwave, Directorate General of Health Services, with UNICEF support, launch guidelines to respond to heat-related risks such as preterm birth and severe heat stress in young children.

In this game users learn through playing how the location and the construction materials of houses make a difference when disasters strike and how early warning systems, evacuation plans and education save lives.

To achieve the goal of the Sendai Framework of reducing global disaster risks and losses, the theme of the IDDRR 2024, which falls on 13 October, will be on the role of education in protecting and empowering youth for a disaster-free future.