The trainor’s manual on “Intergrating Children’s Rights in Barangay Disaster Management and Development” is one of the major outputs of the project “Mainstreaming Child Rights Programming in Community-Based Disaster Management” implemented by the BALAY Rehabilitation Center, Center for Disaster Preparedness (CDP) Philippines, and Save the Children-UK (SC-UK) in the municipality of Pikit, Central Mindanao in 2004. The project aimed to build the capacities of communities and local government officials in seven (7) conflict-affected barangays1 in the municipality of Pikit, towards ensuring the protection of the rights and welfare of children during the various phases of disaster situations.

The trainor’s manual was developed by BALAY and CDP, together with Save the Children UK. This module is today available for use in the National Disaster Coordinating Council, its counterparts in the local government units, various service providers working with children and involved in disaster management, most especially community-based disaster management, and finally, the thousands of barangays in the country as significant units in the locality that are regularly engaged and are always vitally affected by conflicts and disasters and the multi-stakeholders in these localities.

The manual can be downloaded here. (6 MB)

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