Emergencies

Including disaster risk reduction publications.

Investing in the youngest: Early childhood care and development in emergencies

This report shows the different impacts that disasters and emergencies can have on young children, and how Plan’s early childhood care and development (ECCD) in emergencies work is helping to limit those impacts.

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Early childhood care and development in emergencies: A programme guide

This detailed guide for programme staff covers what to do for preparedness, response and recovery.

Download pdf : English (1.2 mb, 108 pages)

Children’s Action for Disaster Risk Reduction

This publication documents the perspective of children from 7 countries in Asia on how disasters and climate change affects their lives and their rights.

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Project briefing: Climate extremes and child rights in South Asia

Plan has studied how girls and boys in South Asia perceive and experience climate extremes and disasters. This project briefing presents the findings and policy implications.

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Background Note: Childhood vulnerability to climate change in marginalised Vietnamese communities

This Background Note examines the barriers and opportunities for marginalised Vietnamese children to input into policy processes and the decisions that affect them.

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IDS policy briefing: Children, climate change and disasters

This briefing uses case studies from 2 disaster-prone countries, the Philippines and El Salvador, to outline the right conditions for child-centred approaches at the community level across the world.

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Climate Extreme: How young people can respond to disasters in a changing world

This child-friendly report gives children in developing countries knowledge about how to prepare and reduce the risks they could face when disasters hit their communities.

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Haiti 2 years after: Successes, challenges and priorities

This report looks at how Plan has been helping children and families affected by the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on 12 January 2010, as well as the challenges faced and priorities going forward.

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Weathering the storm: Adolescent girls and climate change

This report calls for better integration of adolescent girls' needs in climate change adaptation and disaster risk management policies and programmes.

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Pakistan floods: One year on

This report documents Plan's response to the July 2010 floods - from emergency response to long-term recovery programmes.

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Children and Disasters: Understanding Impact and Enabling Agency

This Children in a Changing Climate report contributes to building an improved understanding of how different intensities of disaster affect children and the structures needed to realise the benefits of engaging children.

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Children's Charter for disaster risk reduction

This Children's Charter is an action plan for disaster risk reduction for children by children.

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Plan's position statement at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2011

Plan's statement at the 2011 UN Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction provides reasons why children and young people should be central to disaster risk reduction.

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Plan's Child-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit

Thousands of children, hundreds of community members and partner civil society organisation staff, and Plan staff in 8 countries have contributed to the completion of this Child-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction Toolkit.

Download pdf : English (2.7 mb, 176 pages)

Global Network for Disaster Reduction 2011 summary report

This document invites a specific commitment from people, organisations and institutions to translate risk reduction policies into action at the frontline, where the most vulnerable people continue to lose lives and livelihoods as a result of disaster.

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Haiti earthquake: One year on

From helping thousands of children back to school to reaching over 100,000 people through cholera awareness campaigns, this report documents Plan’s progress over the course of a year since the earthquake.

Download pdf : English | French (723.0 kb, 22 pages)

The benefits of a child-centred approach to climate change adaptation

This report by Plan and UNICEF highlights some of the evidence in an economic argument for a child-centred approach to climate change adaptation.

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Child-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction: Building resilience through participation

This publication provides an overview of Plan's child-centred disaster risk reduction work.

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Children and young people's voices in Haiti's Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA)

Plan led a consultation of 1,000 children to ensure that their voices would be heard in Haiti's Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA).

Download pdf : English | French (711.8 kb, 32 pages)

Haiti six months later summary report

This report highlights some of Plan's activities over the course of 6 months since the earthquake on 12 January 2010.

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Child Rights and Climate Change Adaptation: Voices from Kenya and Cambodia

This report looks at research in drought and flood prone regions of Kenya and Cambodia to see how children saw their rights being linked to changing climatic conditions.

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Plan's Disaster Risk Management Strategy 2009-2013

This strategy outlines how Plan strives to achieve its vision of having effective programmes that promote the rights of children and young people and protect them from threats of conflicts and natural and human-made disasters.

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A right to participate: Securing children's role in climate change adaptation

This publication presents the case for children’s participation and is based on their unique experiences, knowledge and capabilities.

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Global warning: Children's right to be heard in global climate change negotiations

This report calls on governments and all stakeholders working in the field of climate change to do more to listen to children, and to prioritise the education and involvement of young people in decisions and actions to protect their future.

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Understanding the impact of Food Prices on children

This publication looks at the impacts of the food price crisis on developing countries and examines the effects on consumers and producers, and the implications for children.

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Tsunami - 36 months after

A 36 month review of Plan's work in the 2004 tsunami-hit countries, looking at Plan's performance and effectiveness.

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From Catastrophe to Opportunity

This report describes 3 innovative pilot programmes that have helped improve children's lives when disaster has struck: Pictures for Life in India, Happy/Sad Boxes in Sri Lanka and Child Centred Disaster Risk Reducation in the Philippines.