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Communicating with Disaster-Affected Children - A case study from the 2015 Nepal earthquake response

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In disasters and conflicts worldwide, around half of affected people are girls and boys below the age of 18 years. Despite this, in humanitarian settings children are rarely asked to share their views, consulted on what they really need, or equipped with adequate information.

At Plan International we are changing this: communication with disaster-affected children is not only their right, but our experience also tells us that engaging girls and boys in our humanitarian response helps us to respond better and in more relevant ways.

The report – Communicating with Disaster-affected Children, A Case Study from the 2015 Nepal Earthquake Response – provides an overview of humanitarian efforts to communicate with disaster-affected children in the preparedness and response to the 2015 Nepal earthquakes. Together with affected children and adolescents we take stock of children’s views on the information provision and their role in communication and information provision.

The findings of this report show that humanitarian actors should invest in better and more effective ways to provide information to children, communicate with girls and boys of different ages and abilities, and invest in children’s abilities to contribute to communication and information provision.

This report provides a set of concrete recommendations on how this can be done.

Please email info@plansverige.org for more information. The report was co-founded by Sida.