SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online

 
 issue30Sin ley ni organismo técnico: la institucionalidad de la gestión de riesgo de desastres en la respuesta al terremoto de 2016 en EcuadorLineamientos para una propuesta de política pública de recuperación productiva: Manabí 2016 author indexsubject indexarticles search
Home Pagealphabetic serial listing  

Services on Demand

Journal

Article

Indicators

Related links

  • Have no similar articlesSimilars in SciELO

Share


Foro: Revista de Derecho

On-line version ISSN 2631-2484Print version ISSN 1390-2466

Abstract

CARR, Anne. Review of the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Enabling Child-Centred Agency. Foro [online]. 2018, n.30, pp.67-79. ISSN 2631-2484.

The Global Assessment Report on the evidence base developed from child-centred disaster risk reduction projects in the Philippines and El Salvador provides an overview of institutional and legal frameworks that limit or enable developing capacity rather than focusing on vulnerability. In many countries, disaster risk management policy and functions remain focused on a humanitarian and aid driven emergency response agenda, often focusing on the immediate economic loss of the disaster event and the cost of rehabilitation and repair of major infrastructure. The evidence demonstrates that when communities including children are engaged in understanding the causal factors of differentiated vulnerability they can ensure specific needs are planned for before and protected during emergencies. Emphasising the value of engagement with children is not to expect them to have all the answers. Rather it reinforces the case for policy-making to include bottom-up processes to ensure approaches are context specific and take account of the needs of all community members.

Keywords : child centred participation; disaster risk reduction; community capacity building.

        · abstract in Spanish     · text in English     · English ( pdf )