Community Engagement and Accountability includes risk communication, behavior change, according to IFRC guidelines.
In Decisions for the Decade, each participant is a provincial governor and small teams make up the governing body of a nation. All participants begin the game with a budget of ten beans (for a ten-year cycle), and seek to maximize the prosperity of their province and country by investing their budget in long-term development. […]
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In Decisions for the Decade, each participant is a provincial governor and small teams make up the governing body of a nation. All participants begin the game with a budget of ten beans (for a ten-year cycle), and seek to maximize the prosperity of their province and country by investing their budget in long-term development.
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A guide for facilitating participatory games.
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Fire remains one of the leading causes of unintentional deaths in California and the Nation and accounts for 90 percent of annual disaster responses by the American Red Cross. For those living in Central California, they are no exception. Due to the prevailing economic conditions in the Central Valley most homeowners and renters often do
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The publication features the UpRiver game and explicitly acknowledges support from American Red Cross in its development. Online home for the Guide http://engagementgamelab.org/pdfs/engagement-game-guide.pdf
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My Ideal City allows Bogota residents to give input on how to fix certain issues in the downtown area, becoming a forum for debate that builds to a series of possible solutions—such as how to house the city’s 1 million commuting students (solution: micro-housing!) or how to prevent the massive flooding that happens every year
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Many national climate change adaptation plans consider the need to plan over various timescales and acknowledge the essential role of local communities in addressing the changing risks. The Minimum Standards for local climate‐smart disaster risk reduction were developed as a practical checklist to help local community leaders and DRR practitioners ensure their risk reduction efforts are climate‐smart and contribute to
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This is a card based game designed to accelerate the learning processes required to turn early warning into early action. The game is based on forecast-based options and decisions. In many developing countries, consumers of weather forecasts often cannot understand experts’ statements about likely future conditions; scientists meanwhile cannot understand why their forecasts are not
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This is a resilience game in which players assume the role of subsistence farmers organized into village teams, players make individual decisions that lead to collective patterns of choice and risk. The game features trade-offs between collaboration and competition, as well complex feedbacks and thresholds that enable rich discussions involving key resilience concepts. Online home for
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The Dwelling Near the Ditch Game aims to support learning and dialogue about the opportunities and trade-offs facing communities which lack waste collection services, and the additional stress that climate change (in the form of more frequent flooding, aggravated by blocked drains and ditches) can pose for them As the game is played, players experience
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