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Children and Disaster Risk
Reduction in the Asia Pacific
region
Beijing 6th November 2010
C E Cameron & G Norrington-Davies
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Asia Pacific region vulnerability
Over 50% of the total world disasters
Over 70% of lives lost to disasters occur in
this region
75% of global flood mortality risk is in
Bangladesh, China and India
GDP losses of between 2-20%
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The impact of a one metre sea-level rise – displaced people and cost
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The impact of a one metre sea-level rise: displaced people in Asia
Altitude above
current sea level
72 million
people
20 million
people
3 million
people
9 million
people
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Without adequate DRR the full impacts of
climate change & other disasters
follow
Temperature change
Precipitation change
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Without adequate DRR the full impacts of
climate change & other disasters
follow
Temperature change
Incidence of
disasters
increases
Habitat change
(cyclones, tornadoes,
Precipitation change
More frequent and severe drought
More intense rainfall
(desertification, coastal
inundation, inland flooding,
upland warming, increased
topsoil erosion)
typhoons, forest and
grassland fires, heat waves)
Water stress
Ecosystem
change
(species extinction)
Flooding
Agricultural
yield changes
(declines in tropical
areas)
Forced pop. movement/
migration
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Without adequate DRR the full impacts of
climate change & other disasters
follow
Temperature change
Incidence of
disasters
increases
Habitat change
(cyclones, tornadoes,
Precipitation change
More frequent and severe drought
More intense rainfall
(desertification, coastal
inundation, inland flooding,
upland warming, increased
topsoil erosion)
typhoons, forest and
grassland fires, heat waves)
Water stress
Ecosystem
change
(species extinction)
Flooding
Agricultural
yield changes
(declines in tropical
areas)
Forced pop. movement/
migration
Mortality from
sudden onset
disasters
increases
Mortality &
morbidity from
non-communicable
causes increases
(cardio-respiratory,
heatstroke)
Communicable
disease patterns
extend and change
(malaria, dengue fever,
waterborne infections,
diarrhoea)
Decline in food
security and
income
Loss of assets
and livelihoods
Increased
resource
conflict
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Without adequate DRR the full impacts of
climate change & other disasters
Temperature change
Incidence of
disasters
increases
follow
Habitat change
(cyclones, tornadoes,
Precipitation change
More frequent and severe drought
More intense rainfall
(desertification, coastal
inundation, inland flooding,
upland warming, increased
topsoil erosion)
typhoons, forest and
grassland fires, heat waves)
Water stress
Ecosystem
change
(species extinction)
Flooding
Agricultural
yield changes
(declines in tropical
areas)
Forced pop. movement/
migration
Mortality from
sudden onset
disasters
increases
Mortality &
morbidity from
non-communicable
causes increases
(cardio-respiratory,
heatstroke)
Child mortality
& morbidity
increases
Child
malnutrition
increases
Communicable
disease patterns
extend and change
(malaria, dengue fever,
waterborne infections,
diarrhoea)
Child
equality
decreases
Decline in food
security and
income
Loss of assets
and livelihoods
Child
poverty
increases
Reduction
in child
protection
Increased
resource
conflict
More
children out
of school
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Without adequate DRR the full impacts of
climate change & other disasters
Temperature change
Incidence of
disasters
increases
follow
Habitat change
(cyclones, tornadoes,
Precipitation change
More frequent and severe drought
More intense rainfall
(desertification, coastal
inundation, inland flooding,
upland warming, increased
topsoil erosion)
typhoons, forest and
grassland fires, heat waves)
Water stress
Flooding
Agricultural
yield changes
Ecosystem
change
(declines in tropical
areas)
(species extinction)
Forced pop. movement/
migration
Mortality from
sudden onset
disasters
increases
Mortality &
morbidity from
non-communicable
causes increases
Communicable
disease patterns
extend and change
(malaria, dengue fever,
waterborne infections,
diarrhoea)
(cardio-respiratory,
heatstroke)
Child mortality
& morbidity
increases
Child
malnutrition
increases
Decline in food
security and
income
Loss of assets
and livelihoods
Child
poverty
increases
Reduction
in child
protection
Child
equality
decreases
Increased
resource
conflict
More
children out
of school
Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC)
Art 3: Best
interests of child
are primary
Art 6: Right to
life, survival and
development
Art 9:
Art 22:
Art 24:
Separated
from parents
against will
Refugee
status
Right to
health
Art 27: Right to
adequate standard
of living
Art 28 & 29:
Art 38 & 39:
Right to
education
Protection from armed
conflict and recovery
and reintegration
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What did we find?
There is a need for a significant increase in child centred
DRR
Children can be respected, empowered providers and
recipients of DRR.
Children can be risk analysers, designers and
implementers, communicators and mobilisers for DRR
Integrating DRR activities into daily life at community level
is key, so that values and behaviour reinforce each other
in a virtuous circle
Integrating DRR into existing policy and practice rather
than separation should be the guiding principle
There is an opportunity for child centred DRR reporting to
be folded into CRC reporting
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Many players and pathways
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What we need now
• Political determination to support community
based and child centred DRR
• Streamlining of knowledge development and
sharing to support community based and
child centred DRR
• Promoting clarity, coherence and
consistency to support community based
and child centred DRR
• Alignment, cooperation and support for the
implementers of child centred DRR
`The new normal’
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