Summary of mapping results

“The present survey results reiterate the need to build effective and sustainable mechanisms to regularly involve children and young people in assessing disaster risks…”

We asked 993 children and young people in the Baltic Sea Region about their DRR experiences and readiness to be part of disaster risk reduction acitvities.

What did we learn?
Here are four key takeaways:

1. When children were asked how much they knew about disasters that could happen in the area where they live, the most frequent answer (46%) was “a little bit”, 24% answered“quite a bit” and 20(%) declared to know “almost nothing”.

2. To few children believe that they can actively contribute to mitigating and preventing disasters.

3. The majority of children think they can help others and rebuild after a disaster occurs.

4. Only a few children consider themselves unable to undertake any action to prevent or respond to disasters which is encouraging. However, few children feel adequately prepared to help themselves or others.

For more findings about children’s experiences of DRR, click here.