3. Post Disaster Communities and the Opportunity for Change

5. Introduction: Beyond tragedy, natural disasters provide communities with the unique opportunity to re-evaluate their natural and cultural environments and lifestyles. Such events present that rare chance to ‘start again’. However, the need for immediate recovery and economic rehabilitation often outweighs the wisdom of long term planning for inclusive and sustainable solutions. This workshop explores avenues for youth participation in the disaster recovery process and highlights the importance of a youth voice, as stakeholders of the future, in creating sustainable, liveable and resilient communities in post-disaster contexts.

6. Workshop Structure: 1: How Disaster Causes Change in Communities: Beyond the Obvious 2: How Disaster Provides Opportunities for Sustainable Development within Communities 3: Youth as Stakeholders of the Future: Taking the Lead to Inherit the Community YOU want

7. Part 1: How Disaster Causes Change 30 mins Objective: You will be able to describe how disasters cause change in our communities How you will do this: 1: Split into groups of four. Decide on a type of disaster to focus on. (5 mins) 2: Construct a Y Chart. Split into Social, Economic and Environmental change . (15mins) 3: Choose the 3 most important changes in each category. Partner with another group of four who has a different type of disaster to your group. Justify why you have chosen those three changes as the most important. From both groups choose three changes that are most significant in each category. (5mins) 4: Present to entire workshop. (5mins)

8. Part 2: How Disaster Provides Opportunities (30 mins) Objective: You will be able to describe how short term and long term needs can have an impact on sustainable development. How you will do this: 1: Split into the same group of four. Discuss the difference between a community’s short term and long term needs. (5 mins) 2: Construct 2 rake diagrams. One diagram for 5 short term needs and one for 5 long term needs. (15mins) 3: Describe how a short term need might have a negative impact on a long term need. Why is the short term need not sustainable? (5mins) 4: Present to entire workshop. (5mins)

10. Activity 1 (15mins) Housing Space Transport Waste Energy

11. Activity 2 (15mins) Strategy #2: Youth workshops Direct link to Govt Strategy #3 Media Campaign Press, Facebook Strategy #1: Formal Submissions to Council Making my Ideas Count! Getting my Voice Heard!

12. Final Thought: SUSTAINABLE DEVLOPMENT FOR A GREEN ECONOMY = RESILIENT COMMUNITIES!