Natural Disasters impact on children, with a particular emphasis on girls and children with disabilities A case study from Haiti assessing children’s…

2015

Master thesis development management- University of Agder, 2015 This thesis explores whether children, and especially girls and children with disabilities, are more vulnerable in natural disasters. In addition, the thesis investigates what the underlying factors of children’s vulnerabilities are caused by and how we can decrease their vulnerabilities, using Haiti as a case study. Disasters poses substantial threat to both sustainable development and poverty reduction initiatives and can be argued to be the very “antithesis of human development”. The impacts of natural disasters are not evenly distributed among countries, neither are the impacts evenly distributed among citizens. Impacts are…