Action plan 2016-2017 was developed with four categories:
Advocacy
Youth and volunteer management
Youth empowerment Programme
Peer to Peer support, Partnership and Fundraising.
The SEAYN Chairmanship was then handed over to the Philippine RC and new coordination team was nominated with Singapore RC as Deputy Chair and CVTL as Officer. All members recognised that the sustainability of the network depends on their engagement, commitment and their service delivery into community safety and resilience.
This toolkit introduces the European Commission’s new Gender-Age Marker for humanitarian action. It provides an overview of the tool and its application, as well as guidance on how to integrate gender and age concerns in humanitarian action and on how to apply the marker to humanitarian projects.
Overview
The Gender-Age Marker uses four criteria to assess how strongly humanitarian actions integrate gender and age considerations: gender and age analysis / SADD; adapted assistance; negative effects; and adequate participation.
Chapter 1 on the operational importance of gender and age presents arguments and examples demonstrating that humanitarian aid is of higher quality and more effective if it integrates issues relating to gender and age.
Chapter 2 provides tip sheets on integrating gender and age in humanitarian actions to support humanitarian workers in making their actions more sensitive to gender and age issues.
Chapter 3 provides detailed guidance on how to use the Gender-Age Marker in humanitarian actions.
Chapter 4 provides guidance on how to deal with difficult cases when using the Gender-Age Marker. For instance what to do if: only one dimension (age or gender) is well reflected; another important diversity dimension is missing; the context makes it difficult to integrate gender and age; the partner has made progress but still does not meet the criteria; the action is heterogeneous; there are no potential negative effects; different age brackets are used to report beneficiary data.
Purpose: The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 recognized Children and youth are agents of change and called upon all heads of the states and government, ministers and all stakeholders that children and youths should be given the space and modalities to contribute to disaster risk reduction, in accordance with legislation, national practice and educational curricula. This case study; Youth empowerment in school based disaster risk reduction (SBDRR) captures a specific training and tool of “Youth in School Safety” (YSS) as one of Youth empowerment programme in Myanmar Red Cross carried out in July 2015 with the support of the IFRC Southeast Asia delegation. This training is the first time “youth-led and owned” SBDRR training in Myanmar Red Cross Society by using a newly developed IFRC children friendly tool “Youth in School Safety”(YSS) and this training is one of the pilot youth empowerment programme in Southeast Asia region.
Overview: The 6th Asian Ministerial Conference for Disaster Risk Reduction (AMCDRR) called upon all stakeholders to, by recognizing the meaningful role of youth and children in school safety, institutionalize participation of children, adolescents and youths in school based DRR activities including trainings, simulation exercises and other preparedness measures by giving them representing roles in disaster management committee.
Purpose: This newsletter provides update information on Red Cross and Red Crescent youth activities across Southeast Asia up to 2015 for further better engagement and developed 2016 action plan.
Overview: The meeting has reviewed 2014-2015 activities, briefed about the upcoming events such as world humanitarian forum and International conference looking at issues of Youth in each National Society programming and by considering each NSs’ expectations and commitment to SEAYN for their youth engagement and development with specific agenda “Youth in DRR focusing on School safety” as a key main agenda and developed it action plans how to engage youths into this program.
Usage: Learning from experience
Audience: National Society leadership, Technical staff, Communication staff, Volunteers, Youth
See also other series of Southeast Asia Youth Network (SEAYN) Newsletter:
Child-led disaster risk reduction is gaining recognition as a critical component linked to community based disaster management. It is a child-centred community-based framework that fosters the agency of children and youth, both in groups and as individuals, to work towards making their lives safer and their communities more resilient to disasters. The approach entails the ethical and meaningful participation of all children in assessing, planning, implementing, monitoring and evaluating disaster risk reduction (DRR) programs.
In order to promote Comprehensive School Safety framework and school-based disaster risk reduction (SBDRR) through Regional tool combined with YABC for schools to develop the SBDRR plan, Myanmar Red Cross organized the SBDRR and youth empowerment workshop on July 7-10, 2015.
