The NDC Partnership Youth Engagement Plan (YEP) Resources

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Locality-specific training modules, such as the Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management’s Role of Youth &

EQUALITY, GENDER AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Volunteers in Disaster Risk Management are valuable in high risk areas.

Costa Rica promotes integrating youth and children into public policies under the

The International Federation of Red

umbrella of its commitment to the rights

Cross Red Crescent Societies’ Road

of children and young people, paving the

Map to Community Resilience includes

way for the creation of national policies,

youth as key stakeholders in the process.

such as the Young Person’s Public Policy 2020-2024. Approved in 2020 by Executive Decree and codeveloped between youth groups and high-level decisionmakers, these legal instruments enable national government

UNDRR’s Words into Action Guide

institutions to prioritize young people and ensure their

supports engaging children and

involvement is mainstreamed across sectors.

youth in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Building. A group of governments signed the THE YOUTH ENGAGEMENT PLAN

Intergovernmental Declaration on

Children, Youth and Climate Action

youth specific climate vulnerability

based directly on inputs from young

assessments that can feed into countries’

people from around the world. It

disaster risk reduction planning.

commits signatory governments

Guide for Governments: Actions for children and youth

to accelerate inclusive child and

resilience

youth-responsive climate policies. The twelve champion

Guidance for Risk-informed Programming

governments that have signed include: Chile, Costa Rica,

Guidance Note on Risk-informed Education Program for Resilience

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UNICEF has developed children and

Fiji, Luxembourg, Sweden, Slovenia, Spain, Uruguay, Mexico, Monaco, Nigeria, and Peru.


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