International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and Community Disaster Management
RISK AND DISASTER MANAGEMENT BY YOUTH
Can young people perform well when they are involved in disaster preparedness and planning roles?
Social norms have often failed to incorporate youth in leadership roles and decision making process even during emergency situations. Sadly, when a disaster strikes in any given community, youth and children are found to represent more than a third of disaster victims, yet their response role in a disaster is generally restricted to that of passive victims. The tremendous contributions that young people can make to disaster management are largely untapped
LET’S CONSIDER CURRENT ISSUES AFFECTING DISASTER MANAGEMENT, The role of youth in disaster management, experience and lessons learned from organizations
Such as; * the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan, * devastating floods in Pakistan and Australia, * the serious food crisis in the Horn of Africa to name just a few. * the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; * the 2004 Tsunami disaster that impacted the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia; * the 2006 Katrina disaster in New Orleans – U.S.A;
These are few, But we must also remember the hundreds of smaller disasters which have caused enormous damage and upheaval to the lives of millions around the world.
LET’S HIGHLIGHT YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY DISASTER MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES such as * table-top exercise tailored into identifying risks; * designing community emergency plans as well as their own; * exercising a plan; * setting up early warning systems; * implementing response; * mitigation; * Risk reduction plans.
Young people are often seriously affected when disasters strikes and can face severe difficulties in coping with unexpected and traumatic interruptions to their lives. But despite this, the world’s youth are also the very people who can teach their communities - and the wider world - how to reduce the risks and
Can young people perform well when they are involved in disaster preparedness and planning roles?
Social norms have often failed to incorporate youth in leadership roles and decision making process even during emergency situations. Sadly, when a disaster strikes in any given community, youth and children are found to represent more than a third of disaster victims, yet their response role in a disaster is generally restricted to that of passive victims. The tremendous contributions that young people can make to disaster management are largely untapped
LET’S CONSIDER CURRENT ISSUES AFFECTING DISASTER MANAGEMENT, The role of youth in disaster management, experience and lessons learned from organizations
Such as; * the tragic earthquake and tsunami in Japan, * devastating floods in Pakistan and Australia, * the serious food crisis in the Horn of Africa to name just a few. * the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies; * the 2004 Tsunami disaster that impacted the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia; * the 2006 Katrina disaster in New Orleans – U.S.A;
These are few, But we must also remember the hundreds of smaller disasters which have caused enormous damage and upheaval to the lives of millions around the world.
LET’S HIGHLIGHT YOUTH INVOLVEMENT IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITY DISASTER MANAGEMENT ACTIVITIES such as * table-top exercise tailored into identifying risks; * designing community emergency plans as well as their own; * exercising a plan; * setting up early warning systems; * implementing response; * mitigation; * Risk reduction plans.
Young people are often seriously affected when disasters strikes and can face severe difficulties in coping with unexpected and traumatic interruptions to their lives. But despite this, the world’s youth are also the very people who can teach their communities - and the wider world - how to reduce the risks and