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Betty Pfefferbaum1, Rose L Pfefferbaum2, Richard L Van Horn1,3
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.
Insights
Children can actively participate in disaster risk reduction (DRR) efforts, offering benefits for personal development and community resilience. Engaging children in DRR activities is crucial for preparedness, response, and recovery.
Area of Science:
- Social Sciences
- Disaster Management
- Child Development
Background:
- Millions of children are impacted annually by natural disasters.
- Children can transition from passive victims to active contributors in disaster risk reduction (DRR).
Purpose of the Study:
- To establish a theoretical framework for integrating children into disaster risk reduction initiatives.
- To explore the potential of children's involvement in DRR activities.
Main Methods:
- Literature review and analysis focusing on children's participation.
- Examination of children's developmental capacity for engagement in DRR.
- Analysis of existing DRR activities involving children.
Main Results:
- Child participation enhances personal development, skills, self-efficacy, and social relationships.
- Community benefits include strengthened social networks and improved disaster preparedness.
- Children are valuable assets for all phases of disaster management.
Conclusions:
- Children should be recognized and mobilized as key resources in disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience building.
- Further research is needed to develop, promote, and evaluate effective methods for engaging children in DRR activities.
Abstract:
Background: Millions of children are affected by disasters every year. Children need not be passive victims, however, but instead may contribute to disaster risk reduction activities. Objective: This paper provides a theoretical foundation for children's involvement in disaster risk reduction activities. Method: The paper reviews and analyses the literature on children's participation, on their developmental capacity to participate, and on disaster risk reduction activities involving children. Results: Participation yields numerous potential benefits for children, including enhanced personal development and skills, self-efficacy, and interpersonal relationships, and for communities through improved social connections and networks and disaster preparedness. Conclusions: Children are resources to be cultivated and mobilized for disaster preparedness, response, recovery, and resilience. Attention is needed to identify approaches to appropriately enlist, engage, and involve children in disaster risk reduction activities; to promote these efforts; and to evaluate these approaches.
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