Kenya: Hybrid Sensitization Forum for IDDRR
On Thursday, 29th August 2024, a two hours virtual webinar was organized with partnership of UNDRR ROA, SEM, and Africa Youth Advisory Board. The webinar's objective was to describe key DRR concepts to allow young people to have a better understanding and knowledge on DRR. It had 93+ participants from across the globe.
On Tuesday, 30th April, 2024, a hybrid sensitization forum was organized in Nairobi, Kenya to empower youth with knowledge and skills enabling them to contribute actively to developing disaster-resilient initiatives to observe the IDDRR on 13th October 2024. This forum was a result of partnership between UNDRR Head Office, UNDRR ROA, SEM, and Youth4Nature.
The forum was a full-day event with 4 plenary sessions that discussed various DRR aspects and expounded on the 2024 IDDRR theme. There was an in-person attendance of 75 participants (41 Male & 34 Female) and up to 40 virtual attendees in each plenary session.
The participants laid the groundwork for some incredible event ideas for the week of 13th October! The hope was that this week will be unforgettable with impactful activities, including an IDDRR march, a digital video competition explaining DRR concepts using real-world scenarios, a mitigation and resilience-inspiring art exhibition, consultations sensitizing DRR at the community levels, and board games ie scramble word puzzles for creating DRR concepts among many more. During the forum, a gap was identified due to a lack of proper understanding of DRR concepts.