In der Berichtreihe “Next Generation” schauen wir auf die nächste Generation Kinder – ihre derzeitige Situation und jene Veränderungen, die eintreten müssen, damit sie eine gute Zukunft haben. In verschiedenen Themenschwerpunkten blicken die Berichte in die Zukunft, identifizieren Trends und zeigen Kernherausforderungen auf, vor denen Kinder weltweit bereits stehen und zukünftig stehen werden. Auf Grundlage unserer programmatischen und politischen Arbeit teilen wir Handlungsempfehlungen für die deutsche Bundesregierung und andere Akteure, die notwendige Schritte aufzeigen, um Kinderrechte nachhaltig zu realisieren. Dabei blicken wir auch über den Tellerrand: Expert*innen, Kolleg*innen sowie Kinder und Jugendliche aus aller Welt beschäftigen sich mit den Analysen und teilen ihre Einschätzungen und Ideen.
1. Bericht
Kinderrechte in der Klimakrise: Gesundheit und Ernährung
Für Millionen Kinder, die in Gebieten mit häufig auftretenden Dürren oder Überschwemmungen aufwachsen, ist die Klimakrise längst zum Alltag geworden. Sie gefährdet ihre Zukunft und ihr Überleben. Insgesamt 710 Millionen Kinder leben heute in Ländern, in denen die Folgen der Klimakrise am ausgeprägtesten sein werden – Tendenz steigend. Ihre Ernährung ist durch fehlgeschlagene Ernten bereits jetzt gefährdet. Extremwetterereignisse unterbrechen regelmäßig die Gesundheitsversorgung, verursachen Ausbrüche von Infektionskrankheiten und führen zu Vertreibungen. Im Zusammenspiel mit Konflikten und Armut ist die Klimakrise eine reale Bedrohung für die Rechte von Kindern, insbesondere für ihre Gesundheit und Ernährung.
Wie können insbesondere die Gesundheit und Ernährung von Kindern zukünftig vor den Folgen der Klimakrise geschützt werden? Wir stellen in dem Bericht "Kinderrechte in der Klimakrise: Gesundheit und Ernährung" drei Handlungsansätze vor, mit denen die deutsche humanitäre Hilfe und Entwicklungszusammenarbeit einen Beitrag zum nachhaltigen Schutz von Kindern weltweit leisten kann: vorhersagebasierte Finanzierung von humanitärer Hilfe, die Stärkung von Gesundheitssystemen und die Verzahnung von humanitären, entwicklungsbezogenen und friedensfördernden Maßnahmen ("Triple Nexus").
Abdulkadir* (10) and his mother Ikran* (40) are pastoralists in the Bari region of Puntland, Somalia, and have a herd of 106 goats – who are their only source of income and food.
Ikran says the weather is essential for their survival and that the longer and more frequent droughts are impacting on their livestock as she cannot always find them enough pasture to eat.
As the current drought intensifies, Ikran says her animals are losing condition and she’s getting less for them when she sells them in the market, which means she has less money to buy food.
During past droughts, Ikran used to have to travel up to 200km to access water. However, now she can travel two hours with her goats and access water from a borehole Save the Children built – with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) – to provide communities in drought-prone areas with sustainable access to water.
Families like Abdulkadir and Ikran’s have experienced an increasing number of climate-related disasters over the last few decades, ranging from long-lasting droughts to devastating floods, locust infestations and even cyclones, sometimes all experienced in the same region within months.
This growing climate crisis has led to food insecurity, increased water shortages, widespread disease outbreaks, displacement and a drastic reduction in household incomes. Children and their families cannot cope as they have no time to recover before the next crisis hits.
In 2021, Somalia is facing yet another drought, which is pushing the number of children and adults who need critical support to 5.9 million – a third of the population and an increase of 700,000 people compared to 2020.
A Save the Children assessment conducted in February 2021 found that more than 70 percent of families surveyed didn’t have access to clean drinking water and that more than 50 percent didn’t have enough food to eat.
Save the Children continues to prioritise the need
Cyclonic Storm ‘YAAS’ made landfall at West Bengal with a wind speed above 150 Km/h on 26th May early morning. The extended wind speeds above 120 km/h hit Bangladesh coast specfically Satkhira, Bhola, Patuakhali and Barguna districts.
Around 25,000 families at Satkhira, 17,000 families at Patukhali are severely affected by high tide although damage assessment will be carried out and actual damage information will be higher.
Save the Children has distributed Cash (BDT 3000 through MMT) and hygiene NFI to 700 families and shelter kits to 300 families under Early Action Protocol in Patuakhali and Bagerhat districts.
Community level early actions have been implemented such as EW message dissemination, evacuation people to cyclone shelter, prepare the 10 cyclone shelters and WASH points, re-excavation channel etc.
One emergency response team already have deployed to Satkhira from Dhaka. SCI field office and partners are collecting situation updates and damage information from field. Two teams are already in Bagerhat and Patuakhali districts and assessing the situation. In all areas SCI prepositioned partners are supporting to collect information.
Eisha, 16 Jahre aus Pakistan, erlebt die Konsequenzen des Klimawandels bereits in ihrem Alltag. Sie setzt sich national und international für mehr Klimaschutz ein und möchte, dass Jugendliche in Entscheidungen eingebunden werden: “Jede Person unter 18 Jahren sollte offiziell das Recht haben, an den Entscheidungsprozessen, die sie betreffen, teilzunehmen.”
Tosmin*, 11, plays with the falling rain from her house as the monsoon rains pours down over a refugee camp for Rohingya people in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Children walk through a flooded area of a camp for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, as monsoon rains pour down.
Since the monsoon rains started in April, thousands of shelters have been damaged or destroyed by heavy storms and deadly landslides, forcing people to move to temporary shelters.
Children are the most vulnerable group during this monsoon season. Along with the dangers of landslides and floods, they are particularly vulnerable to life threatening diseases such as serious respiratory infections and diarrhoea.
Save the Children’s top priority is to save lives, protect homes and vital infrastructure and limit interruptions to vital programs and services. In preparation for the monsoon, they have prepositioned items like hygiene kits, health supplies, shelter kits, and other materials for our child friendly spaces and have distributed thousands of safety bracelets to children, so they can be rapidly reunited with their families if they become separated in a storm or flood.
Abdulkadir* (10) and his mother Ikran* (40) are pastoralists in the Bari region of Puntland, Somalia, and have a herd of 106 goats – who are their only source of income and food.
Ikran says the weather is essential for their survival and that the longer and more frequent droughts are impacting on their livestock as she cannot always find them enough pasture to eat.
As the current drought intensifies, Ikran says her animals are losing condition and she’s getting less for them when she sells them in the market, which means she has less money to buy food.
During past droughts, Ikran used to have to travel up to 200km to access water. However, now she can travel two hours with her goats and access water from a borehole Save the Children built – with funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) – to provide communities in drought-prone areas with sustainable access to water.
Families like Abdulkadir and Ikran’s have experienced an increasing number of climate-related disasters over the last few decades, ranging from long-lasting droughts to devastating floods, locust infestations and even cyclones, sometimes all experienced in the same region within months.
This growing climate crisis has led to food insecurity, increased water shortages, widespread disease outbreaks, displacement and a drastic reduction in household incomes. Children and their families cannot cope as they have no time to recover before the next crisis hits.
In 2021, Somalia is facing yet another drought, which is pushing the number of children and adults who need critical support to 5.9 million – a third of the population and an increase of 700,000 people compared to 2020.
A Save the Children assessment conducted in February 2021 found that more than 70 percent of families surveyed didn’t have access to clean drinking water and that more than 50 percent didn’t have enough food to eat.
Save the Children continues to prioritise the need
Cyclonic Storm ‘YAAS’ made landfall at West Bengal with a wind speed above 150 Km/h on 26th May early morning. The extended wind speeds above 120 km/h hit Bangladesh coast specfically Satkhira, Bhola, Patuakhali and Barguna districts.
Around 25,000 families at Satkhira, 17,000 families at Patukhali are severely affected by high tide although damage assessment will be carried out and actual damage information will be higher.
Save the Children has distributed Cash (BDT 3000 through MMT) and hygiene NFI to 700 families and shelter kits to 300 families under Early Action Protocol in Patuakhali and Bagerhat districts.
Community level early actions have been implemented such as EW message dissemination, evacuation people to cyclone shelter, prepare the 10 cyclone shelters and WASH points, re-excavation channel etc.
One emergency response team already have deployed to Satkhira from Dhaka. SCI field office and partners are collecting situation updates and damage information from field. Two teams are already in Bagerhat and Patuakhali districts and assessing the situation. In all areas SCI prepositioned partners are supporting to collect information.
Eisha, 16 Jahre aus Pakistan, erlebt die Konsequenzen des Klimawandels bereits in ihrem Alltag. Sie setzt sich national und international für mehr Klimaschutz ein und möchte, dass Jugendliche in Entscheidungen eingebunden werden: “Jede Person unter 18 Jahren sollte offiziell das Recht haben, an den Entscheidungsprozessen, die sie betreffen, teilzunehmen.”
Tosmin*, 11, plays with the falling rain from her house as the monsoon rains pours down over a refugee camp for Rohingya people in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh.
Children walk through a flooded area of a camp for Rohingya refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, as monsoon rains pour down.
Since the monsoon rains started in April, thousands of shelters have been damaged or destroyed by heavy storms and deadly landslides, forcing people to move to temporary shelters.
Children are the most vulnerable group during this monsoon season. Along with the dangers of landslides and floods, they are particularly vulnerable to life threatening diseases such as serious respiratory infections and diarrhoea.
Save the Children’s top priority is to save lives, protect homes and vital infrastructure and limit interruptions to vital programs and services. In preparation for the monsoon, they have prepositioned items like hygiene kits, health supplies, shelter kits, and other materials for our child friendly spaces and have distributed thousands of safety bracelets to children, so they can be rapidly reunited with their families if they become separated in a storm or flood.
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