DRR Can Be Fun!
The Role of Games, Videos & Music
in DRR work
So you are a NGO worker…
How do you explain this ?
“Tell me and I forget,
teach me and I may remember,
involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin
DRR Tools to “involve”
How to move from
being just FUN
to:
Raising Awareness?
&
Influencing Behaviour
Change?
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!!!!