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Save the Children Japan
Great East Japan Earthquake Recovery Programme
Programme Manager, Education and Coordinator, DRR
Masako Ota (Ph.D.)
Tohoku Forum for Creativity: International Workshop on Implementing of
Practical Disaster Risk Reduction
Group 1: Discussion on Disaster Education and Disaster Archive
8 November, 2014
Promoting Child-centred Disaster Risk Reduction
from the Experience of the Great East Japan
Earthquake and Tsunami
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Save the Children
Established in the UK in 1919
Consultative status with the UN
Economic and Social Council
30 member countries
Working in more than 120 countries
Vision
A world in which every child attains the right to
survival, protection, development and
participation.
Mission
To inspire breakthroughs in the way the world
treats children and to achieve immediate and
lasting change in their lives
Established in 1986
Offices: Tokyo, Osaka, Tono (Iwate), Sendai (Miyagi) and
Fukushima (Fukushima)
Overseas: Afghanistan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Lebanon,
Kenya, Burkina Faso, etc. 3
Save the Children Japan
Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
Emergency Response and Recovery Program (GEJAREP)
Overall Goal:
(1) To support the recovery of children and their
caregivers in the aftermath of the March 2011
earthquake and tsunami
(2) To enable children to be active agents in inspiring
breakthroughs in the way children are treated in
emergency preparedness planning, disaster risk
reduction and during emergency response
Period: March, 2011 – December, 2015
Area: Iwate, Miyagi, and Fukushima prefectures
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The GEJAREP’s Five-year Strategy
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Child Protection
- Safe Play Zones
- After-school
Children’s Club
(Gakudo)
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
Cross-cutting Issues
Fukushima: Programme for the Protection of Children from Radiation
Education
- Scholarship
- School equipment
- Learning support in
partnership with
companies
Community (Creating Child-
Friendly Community)
-Children’s Community
Building Clubs
-Hear Our Voice
GEJAREP’s Activities
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Capacity Development Recovery
Strengthening child participation
Community Resiliency
(school, after-school, family)
♦software support
・ Development of DRR educational
materials
・ DRR training
・ Networking
Recovery Emergency
Resp
on
se
Indirect
Support
2014 June 2011 2012 11 March,
2011 2013 2015
Immediate Needs
♦hardware support
・Facilities
・Equipment
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Outreach
• Year 1 (Mar – Dec, 2011) 62,774 children and 2,148 adults
• Year 2 (Jan – Dec, 2012) 66,782 children and 18,467adults • Year 3 (Jan – Dec, 2013) 52,641 children and 12,451 adults • DRR (Mar, 2012 – Sep, 2014) 10,860 children and adults
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• Development and promotion of DRR educational
materials
• Model project on child-centered DRR in
Higashimatsushima city, Miyagi
• Literacy project on radiation in Fukushima
• Introducing Psychological First Aid (PFA)
• Child participation in the reconstruction process
• Advocacy
• Grant to local NGOs which work on DRR
GEJAREP: DRR activities
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DRR educational materials developed
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DRR project
in Higashimatsushima city, Miyagi prefecture
Linking through children
school
family community
Child-Centred DRR
Children are equipped with the ability
to protect their own lives and become
an active agent in DRR.
After-
school
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School Teacher training
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City-wide drill on earthquake and tsunami School
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City-wide drill on earthquake and tsunami School
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City-wide drill on earthquake and tsunami School
Family
Photo:
Family reunion
Photo:
Parents observe the drill
in classrooms
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City-wide drill on earthquake and tsunami School
Community
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Child-to-Child DRR education School
Instructor training and learning on DRR
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After-school
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Community Learning DRR together
Children
School After-
school
Family Community
Coordination
Children’s
perspective
Municipal
government
Children’s
perspective
Child-centred DRR in Higashimatsushima
Coordination Coordination
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Lessons and experiences to be shared
• DRR educational materials developed
• Protecting children from hazards for 24 hours
• Children’s active participation in DRR
SCJ’s overseas projects
• Mongolia
• Indonesia
• Vietnam
• Thailand
Child-focused Disaster Risk Reduction and
Awareness Raising in Communities and Schools
Period: April, 2013 – December, 2015
Area: Ayuthaya, Nonthaburi, Pathum Thani provinces
Activities:
• Teacher training
• DRR committee established
at school
• Distribution of DRR
educational materials
• DRR education at schools
• DRR events in communities
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Case: DRR project in Thailand
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• Introducing DRR educational materials
developed
• Imparting knowledge on school disaster
management
• Sharing experience on linking important
stakeholders to protect children’s lives
• Promoting children’s participation
Possible inputs