Post on 23-Feb-2016
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DRR Can Be Fun!The Role of Games, Videos & Music in DRR work
So you are a NGO worker…
How do you explain this ?
Benjamin Franklin
“Tell me and I forget,
teach me and I may remember,
involve me and I learn.”
How to move from being just FUN
to:Raising Awareness?
&Influencing Behaviour
Change?
DRR Tools to “involve”
The power of DRR Games
“Games can be a fantastic platform for dialogue, for establishing a safe space for collaboration, for trying different strategies for how to deal with future risks”
Pablo Suarez, Associate Director for Research and Innovation, IFRC Climate Centre
Games, a powerful tool for DRR?
• Participatory methodology to help people understand complex issues and facilitate informed decision-making
• allow stakeholders from very different backgrounds (literacy, hierarchy, social status) to bring their own knowledge to the table in a safe environment where they can interact and communicate freely
• efficient learning mechanism when you have a short period of time
• simulate the complex reality people live in!
A taster of the power of Games in promoting Resilience
From early warning to early action: The Doune Baba Dieye game
Other Tools to influence
In Central America & the Caribbean – DRR rap songs developed by children
In South East Asia – Child led DRR Participatory videos
Join our DRR Can be Fun Panel Discussions Sessions
Where? -1 level of International Conference Centre
When?• DRR & Games: Tuesday 21 May @ 4-5 pm• DRR & Videos: Wednesday 22 May @5.30-6:30 pm • DRR & Music: Thursday 23 May @ 5.30-7 pm–
followed by a DRR can be Fun closing Party!!!!