Child-centred disaster risk reduction: Can disaster resilience programs reduce risk and increase the resilience of children and households?
This paper discusses current progress and challenges on the role of child-centered disaster risk reduction and resilience (CC-DRR), including disaster risk reduction and resilience education programs for children and youth. This paper focuses on the question of 'how can we create, evaluate, implement and scale up CC-DRR programs, to reduce risk and increase resilience for children, youth, schools, households and communities?'.
As proposed in the paper, the ways forward for CC-DRR research are:
- for researchers to partner with end users in emergency management agencies, schools and policy contexts;
- to build research-informed capacities;
- to co-develop a set of research-driven schools with end users that include:
- developing stakeholder and theory- and research-supported CC-DRR/Disaster resilience education (DRE) programs;
- building CC-DRR/DRE programs that include routine monitoring and evaluation of outcomes to ensure effectiveness;
- promoting scaled, sustainable implementation of cost-effective CC-DRR/DRE programs.
- to evaluate outcome effectiveness and implementation with theory-driven evaluation;
- for tools to take account of agency and school resource issues and ensure that they used are pragmatic and actually can, and will be used.
Australian Journal of Emergency Management, Volume 31, Issue 3, July 2016, Pages 49-58. This document is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license.