Problem Statement

Slum-dweller populations in general, and children & women in particular, from developing countries are highly vulnerable to climate change impacts & disaster risks. Children’s vulnerability arises within their slums and schools too. The climate change impacts are expected to intensify the issue significantly in coastal & highly vulnerable non-coastal cities. The slums are densely populated and face many hazards. They neither have coping & adaptive capacities nor resources to risk-proof self. Due to traditional gender inequality among the marginalized communities, girls get secondary treatment and women get excluded from related decision making & capacity building.There are no knowledge resources & awareness efforts tailor-made for the slum dwellers considering high illiteracy among them. The schools attended by the slum-children are generally resource-poor, lack requisite knowledge & capacities. None of such schools have develop any disaster risk reduction plans nor have any awareness about it. AIILSG’s innovation synergises all influential ways to effect the change by: •Enabling children to become agents of change in their schools and communities •Enabling schools of slum-dweller children become “Safe Schools” (as envisaged in United Nation’s Sendai Framework for Children)•Enabling the slums become “Safe Communities’ •Utilize ‘Edu-tainment’ (Education + Entertainment) approach through children by demystifying the complex concepts of climate change and disasters & providing simple child friendly visual IEC. •Special emphasis on customized IEC for populations with disabilities•Engagement & capacity building of city-governments & other stakeholders•Initiating ‘Global Movement of Youth for SDG 11”