Participatory tools for disaster risk management with children and young people

This chapter explores the tools and methods used to include children’s voices in disaster risk management (DRM) that we found to be effective during the different stages of the CUIDAR project. Examples include creative and artistic methods such as drawing, participatory mapping, photovoice, active thinking and planning, storytelling, and video and performance art. In working with these tools, our aim was to inform and foster communication and informal learning, and give more value to the local and grounded knowledges of children and young people, their families and communities, suggesting practical ways of promoting intergenerational learning. Policy-makers and practitioners can use these tools, methods and examples for inspiration, and to promote more child-centred disaster management and civil protection in Europe and beyond.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10451/50098

Citation

Jussara Rowland, Miriam Arenas, Flaminia Cordani, Anna Grisi, Magda Nikolaraizi, Maria Papazafiri, Alison Lloyd Williams, Aya Goto and Amanda Bingley (2020). Participatory tools for disaster risk management with children and young people. In Maggie Mort, Israel Rodriguez-Giralt and Ana Delicado (Eds.), Children and Young People’s Participation in Disaster Risk Reduction Agency and Resilience, pp. 117-151. Bristol University Press.