Master that Disaster

Note: we recommend that you facilitate this game after having experienced it yourself. 

Description

In this participatory activity, players become subsistence farmers, who face changing risks. They must make individual and collective decisions, with consequences.

Learning objectives

To understand the value of social protection in dealing with recurrent crises and shocks and with climate change.

Intended audience

Disaster managers, policy makers, donors

Playspace requirements

Large room with tables and chairs

Acknowledgements

This game was developed in partnership with the Unitied Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, building on a disaster risk financing game created for the World Bank DRFI programme.

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.