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!!!!