THAILAND CHILD-LED RESEARCH: Impact, Understanding and Development of Children and Youth Participation in Climate Change and Disaster Action

We are a group of young researchers in Thailand who conducted a study to better understand how climate change and disasters affect children in our  communities. Through this research, we hope to contribute to the raising of awareness on the impacts of climate change and disasters in our communities. In recent years, our country has experienced severe heat waves due to climate change. This interrupts our daily activities, including our schooling and our families’ livelihood, and has also caused us children and adults alike to experience many health problems.

The specific objectives of our research are as follows:

1. To determine the climate change and disaster risks and environmental problems children from different regions face and how they feel or perceive these issues.
2. To find out how children or people in the community cope with the challenges they face due climate change and disasters

With the support of World Vision East Asia through the Young Minds CAMP (Child-Led Actions, Mobilizations & Partnerships) platform and our advisors and staff of World Vision Thailand, we were able to design and implement our research project between July and August 2024.