Community Engagement and Accountability includes risk communication, behavior change, according to IFRC guidelines.
15 Games that can also be used as energizer and ice breakers in workshops or community trainings: 1. Meet my Daughter: to introduce group members at the beginning of the workshop and to create a relaxed atmosphere. 2. My Passion: to introduce group members at the beginning of the workshop. 3. Animal Crackers: To introduce group […]
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A fast-paced game on Climate Risk Management for crowd or auditorium settings. Participants take the role of disaster managers working together in teams (represented by rows in the auditorium or groups in a crowd). Each year, players must decide between investing in taking early action for flood preparedness, or whether to invest in planning and
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The goal of Upstream Downstream is to have the most amount of wealth by investing wisely in one’s farm. Will you have a prosperous farm, or will drought and floods be your downfall?
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Ice breaker to open and/or debrief an interactive session and consolidate insights from medium to large groups unfamiliar with each other Learning Objectives: Engage all participants in group reflection to reveal diversity of participant perspectives
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A participatory activity for communities affected by disasters aimed at inspiring a desire to learn about safe building methods, in particular “bracing” (structural reinforcement). With limited time and materials, players construct shelter for households recently affected by an extreme event. They confront the trade-offs between quick and cheap housing versus stronger but more resource- and
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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
Engagement Games:A case for designing games to facilitate real-world action Read More »
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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