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Child Centered Disaster Risk Reduction Workshop

INTRODUCTION

Child centered disaster risk reduction (CCDRR) is a process to strengthen community’s resilience. Children become activists and mobilize community through influencing individuals, peer groups, and other stakeholders towards the achievement of resilience in communities in times of disaster. CCDDR complements to national action plans for children through empowering children and community as whole towards disaster risk reduction.

The training is aimed at ensuring children are put at the center of the CBDRM process which thus ensures their active participation in disaster risk reduction by allowing them to start the risk identification process while simultaneously validating their findings with adults.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

By the end of this course the participants will be able to:

  • Identify Child Centered Community Development (CCCD)
  • Differentiate the relationship between Development and Disasters
  • Understand CBDRR and its alignment with CCCD
  • Understand the work process of CCDRR
  • Define and describe Community organization
  • Participate in Institutional strengthening and alliance building on DRR

DURATION

5 Days

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

The training is meant for adults, community-based organizations, government agencies, Non-governmental organizations who have rolled out projects whose main aim is to reduce disasters through increasing coping capacity and resilience of community members.

COURSE CONTENT

Module 1: Introduction of Child Centered Community Development (CCCD)

  • CCCD framework
  • Work process of CCCD

Module 2: Development and Disaster

  • Development at Risk
  • Disasters relationship to development
  • Vicious spiral of Disaster Risk and development failure
  • Mainstream model of disaster risk reduction and development
  • Disaster management terminologies
  • Impact of disasters on children
  • Children’s contribution throughout disaster life cycle

Module 3: Understanding CBDRR and its alignment with CCCD

  • Community-based Disaster Risk Reduction (CBDRR)
  • CBDRR approach
  • Process of CBDRR
  • Development of CCDRR model
  • Difference between CBDRR and CCDRR

Module 4: Work process of CCDRR

  • Introduction
  • Preparation
  • Immersion
  • Capacity building training for child activists and potential adult
  • Community risk assessment
    • Step 1: Get to know the surroundings of your house, neighborhood, and community
    • Step 2: Social Mapping-
    • Step 3: Hazard Calendar
    • Step 4: Vulnerability identification         
    • Step 5: Capacities and resources identification
    • Step 6: Risk Assessment
    • Step 7: Issues prioritization and cluster
  • Planning
    • Step 1: Root cause analysis and Risk Reduction Options
    • Step 2: Stakeholder mapping
    • Step 3: Validation with community members and stakeholders
  • Resource Mobilization
  • Implementation
  • Participatory Monitoring
  • Evaluation
  • Reflection

Module 5: Community Organization

  • Phases of community organization

Module 6: Institutional strengthening and alliance building on DRR

  • Mainstream service institutions
  • Community - Institutional Relationship

Course Schedule
Dates Fees Location Apply
20/01/2025 - 24/01/2025 $1500 Nairobi
03/02/2025 - 07/02/2025 $1500 Nairobi
17/02/2025 - 21/02/2025 $1500 Nairobi
03/03/2025 - 07/03/2025 $1500 Nairobi
10/03/2025 - 14/03/2025 $3000 Kigali
17/03/2025 - 21/03/2025 $1500 Nairobi
07/04/2025 - 11/04/2025 $1500 Nairobi
14/04/2025 - 18/04/2025 $1750 Mombasa
21/04/2025 - 25/04/2025 $1500 Nairobi
05/05/2025 - 09/05/2025 $1500 Nairobi
12/05/2025 - 16/05/2025 $4500 Dubai
19/05/2025 - 23/05/2025 $1500 Nairobi
02/06/2025 - 06/06/2025 $1500 Nairobi
09/06/2025 - 13/06/2025 $1750 Mombasa
16/06/2025 - 20/06/2025 $1500 Nairobi
07/07/2025 - 11/07/2025 $1500 Nairobi
14/07/2025 - 18/07/2025 $3500 Johannesburg
21/07/2025 - 25/07/2025 $1500 Nairobi
04/08/2025 - 08/08/2025 $1500 Nairobi
11/08/2025 - 15/08/2025 $1750 Mombasa
18/08/2025 - 22/08/2025 $1500 Nairobi
01/09/2025 - 05/09/2025 $1500 Nairobi
08/09/2025 - 12/09/2025 $3500 Dar es Salaam
15/09/2025 - 19/09/2025 $1500 Nairobi
06/10/2025 - 10/10/2025 $1500 Nairobi
13/10/2025 - 17/10/2025 $3000 Kigali
20/10/2025 - 24/10/2025 $1500 Nairobi
03/11/2025 - 07/11/2025 $1500 Nairobi
10/11/2025 - 14/11/2025 $1750 Mombasa
17/11/2025 - 21/11/2025 $1500 Nairobi
01/12/2025 - 05/12/2025 $1500 Nairobi
15/12/2025 - 19/12/2025 $1500 Nairobi