Public awareness and public education for disaster risk reduction enables communities to identify hazards, take action to reduce their vulnerability and empowers them to participate in reducing future risks by turning available knowledge into specific local action.

In this sense, is imperative to enable engagement environments of education and empowerment for the Youth. Youth are agents of change in addressing global challenges in their local communities. Recent events around the world have delivered powerful examples of the potential of young people to mobilize, engage in social, economic, and political issues and to drive the change they want to see around them. In addition, Youth Engagement is intrinsic to build strong national societies since they play a vital role in volunteerism.  

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Behavior Change
Beneficiary Communication
Community-Based Health and First Aid (CBHFA)
Early Warning Systems
Games
Immersive Technologies & Digital Games
Public Awareness and Public Education
Social Media in Disasters
Volunteers
Youth Preparedness

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Videos (112)

Immersive Technologies and Digital Serious Games for School Preparedness - Webinar Recording

Immersive Technologies and Digital Serious Games for School Preparedness - Webinar Recording

Stop Disasters 2.0: Video Games as Tools to Foster Participation in Learning about Disaster

Stop Disasters 2.0: Video Games as Tools to Foster Participation in Learning about Disaster

TANAH: Tsunami and Earthquake Fighter Game -Trailer (English)

Tanah: The Tsunami and Earthquake Fighter - Game App
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Case Studies (57)
Immersed: VR experience about flood and resilience
Immersed is the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) flood risk visualization immersive virtual reality tool targeted at US local officials. It helps to educate community leaders about the value of flood preparedness by fully immersing users at the center of a flood crisis, allow- ing them...
Disaster Scope
Disaster Scope is an augmented reality (AR) application which contains flooding and fire smoke simulations built by Itamiya laboratory, an organisation lead by Dr Tomoki Itamiya, a professor at Aichi University of Technology (Japan). Itamiya laboratory specialise in image processing and computer...
1979 Revolution - Black Friday
1979 Revolution: Black Friday is an award winning interactive video game created and published by New York studio iNK Stories, run by Navid and Vassili Khonsari. The game transports players to the Iran of 1978, where they become a journalist who gets involved in the intense events of the Iranian...
Virtual Reality Based Disaster Resilience Training
The Asia Pacific Disaster Resilience Centre (APDRC) hosted by the Republic of Korea National Red Cross (KNRC) embarked on a virtual reality journey in 2018 because of the need for more realistic and participatory training in Asia Pacific, the most disaster prone region of the world. VR is one of...
Philippines Disaster Preparedness Simulator
The Disaster Preparedness Simulator is a virtual reality (VR) integrated disaster preparedness learning experience where users are immersed in disaster scenarios in a controlled environment. It has three experiences of different hazards - earthquake, flood and typhoon - and is specifically targeted...
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CAP Workshop 2020 Training
The agenda of the CAP Train the Trainers session, 9 am - 4 pm on 28 September, is provided here. If you plan to attend this training, consider bringing your laptop PC for the CAP-206 lesson. That lesson is a hands-on exercise using the cloud-based CAP Editor freeware.
CAP Workshop 2020 Speakers
For the 2020 CAP Implementation Workshop in Geneva, Switzerland, a list of speakers and their presentation topics, with short biographical sketches and portraits, is posted here.
CAP Workshop 2020 Report
The Report of the 2020 CAP Implementation Workshop will be posted here in late 2020.
CAP Workshop 2020 Programme
The Programme of the 2020 CAP Implementation Workshop, ​29-30 September in Geneva, Switzerland, is posted here.
CAP Workshop 2020 Participants
The List of Participants in the 2020 CAP Implementation Workshop is divided into three parts: Participants Affiliated with Governmental Organizations Participants Affiliated with International Organizations Participants Affiliated with Other Organizations or Unaffiliated
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