Game Facilitation Tips
A guide for facilitating participatory games.
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Community Engagement and Accountability
Community Engagement and Accountability includes risk communication, behavior change, according to IFRC guidelines.
Answer with Your Feet – Ice Breaker
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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Shaping your Shelter: A game on post-disaster reconstruction of homes
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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Team Firestopper – Preventing Fire Before They Start in Central California
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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Engagement Games:A case for designing games to facilitate real-world action
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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The Minimum Standards for local climate‐smart disaster risk reduction
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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The Dissolving Disasters Game
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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Dwelling Near the Ditch: A Participatory Game on Urban Waste Management, Flooding, and Climate Change
Designed by Pablo Coll and Pablo Milrud for the Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre, Dwelling Near the Ditch is a participatory learning game that supports dialogue about the opportunities and trade-offs facing communities that lack effective waste collection services, and the additional stress that climate change — in the form of more frequent and intense
The Upstream-Downstream Game
The game centres on climate-related information in decision-making at the community level, and how neighbouring upstream and downstream communities can work together to manage consequences of flood, drought and deforestation. Video of the game, Video of the game, Video of the game in Spanish http://vimeo.com/46378989, http://vimeo.com/46378989, http://vimeo.com/45097866
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