Participatory Mapping for Raising Disaster Risk Awareness Among the Youth

Abstract

This research note documents a recent experience conducted in the Philippines and that consisted in using participatory mapping to raise disaster risk awareness among the youth. Maps are cheap, easy to reproduce and help in materializing hazard, vulnerability and risk, and thus allow the youth to concretely appraise disaster risk in their immediate environment. This is particularly important among marginalized communities. The next step is hence to scale up the activity to the level of disaster risk reduction within schools and colleges.