Disasters: Impact on Child Poverty and Development

Source: Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Published: 5/7/2019. During this one-hour, 33-minute presentation, an expert panel discusses the effect of natural hazards on the different life stages of children and adolescents living in poverty. Panelists discuss how natural hazards experienced during childhood affect future life stages into adolescence and beyond, and what the implications of natural hazards for child and adolescent poverty trajectories are. They draw on a recent research report on Child Poverty, Disasters and Climate Change: Investigating Relationships and Implications Over a Child ’s Life Course. (Video or Multimedia)
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