Coping with Psychosocial Effects of the Pandemic on Boys, Girls and Adolescents of APEC Economies - Resource Manual and Guide of Best Practices

Resource Manual and Guide of Best Practices APEC Emergency Preparedness Working GroupDecember2024 Coping with Psychosocial Effects ofthe Pandemic on Boys, Girls andAdolescents of APEC Economies Resource Manual and Guide of BestPractices APECEmergency Preparedness Working Group December2024 APEC Project:EPWG 04 2022A Produced byDaniel Lorca BarontiAsociación Chilena Pro Naciones Unidas, ACHNUAv. Providencia 835, oficina 17Providencia, Santiago de Chile 7500649Tel: (56) 2 23414941Email:achnu@achnu.clWebsite:www.achnu.cl ForAsia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat35 Heng Mui Keng TerraceSingapore 119616Tel: (65) 68919 600Fax: (65) 68919 690Email:info@apec.orgWebsite:www.apec.org © 2024APEC Secretariat APEC#224-EM-03.1 Acknowledgments This manual would not have been possible withoutthe support of the Co-sponsoringEconomies: Malaysia;the United States;and Viet Nam. We extend special thanks to theEmergency Preparedness Working Group (EPWG) and to Ms. Aurora TSAI, Director Program,and Ms. Carol CHIN, Program Executive, from the APEC Secretariat, for theircontinuoussupport in the preparation of this manual and theentiredevelopment of the project. Specialthanks also to Mr. LuisDoñas,Head of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation at theNationalDisaster Prevention and Response Service(SENAPRED), for guiding the application processand facilitating the dissemination of the project among APEC economies. We would like toacknowledgeMs.Francis Valverde,Executive Director of ACHNU,who contributedimmensely throughout various stages of the project’s development, from the final review ofthis manual to her role as a guest expert in the workshop. Special thanks to Mr. NicolásRussell, ACHNU administrator and Project Overseer, who provided guidance and was presentin every stage of the project, without whose contributions this publication would not have beenpossible. Special appreciation also goes to CristinaVéjar,who contributed to the final editingof the English text. We would also like to thankMaría Paz Lillo,Marjoreyn Barrientos,Patricio Álvarez, andJosephBandet,who participated as experts in the workshop and contributed to thedevelopment of the materials featured in the appendix of the manual. Finally, we extend our thanks to IsabelPuga, in charge of event logistics, to the entire teaminvolved in the development of the workshop held on19-21Marchin Santiago, Chile, andespecially to the representatives of the APECEconomies who participated in the workshop:Chile; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Peru; The Republic of the Philippines; Thailand; and VietNam;whose participation enabled a fruitful exchange of knowledge and experiences,enriching the content of this manual. Content 1.Executive summary........................................................................................................22.Introduction....................................................................................................................32.1Overview.................................................................................................................32.2Purpose of the Manual............................................................................................72.3Approach and methodology....................................................................................73.Conceptual Elements.....................................................................................................93.1Children's Human Rights Approach........................................................................9a.International Protection System..............................................................................9b.Principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.........................................14c.System and Role of Guarantors............................................................................17d.Protection of Rights and the Right to Protection....................................................18e.Distinction between violations of rights and conflicts of coexistence.....................203.2Disaster Risk Management...................................................................................23a.General Context and Importance of DRM.............................................................23b.Key elements of DRM in Asia Pacific....................................................................25c.Sustainability and institutionalization of the CBDRM.............................................293.3Psychosocial Support...........................................................................................32a.Symptomatology and usual reactions to emergency or disaster situations............32b.Time evolution of disasters and their effects.........................................................36c.General coping criteria..........................................................................................40d.Importance of team care in emergency/disaster situations..........................