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Description

Scouts become international crisis-response teams and take control of seven different emergency scenarios: flood, earthquake, wildfire, drought, cyclone, displacement crisis and disease outbreak.
Working in teams of four, they use detailed maps and limited resources to decide who needs help first, respond to changing situations, make difficult choices and defend their decisions. As the immediate crisis subsides, teams consider recovery and then decide how to spend a limited budget to “Build Back Better” and make their community more resilient.
The activity explores global issues, inequality, cooperation, decision-making and how access to infrastructure and resources can affect communities during a crisis.
The session also begins with a short circuit-training activity which can contribute towards the physical activity element of the Skills Challenge Award.

Resources

7 printed crisis team packs
7 printed scenario maps, ideally A3
Printed/cut-out resource and incident tokens
Pens/pencils
Clipboards or hard surfaces to write on

Instructions

Split Scouts into teams of four and give each team a different crisis pack and map.

Each Scout takes one role: Incident Commander, Resource Manager, Operations & Planning Lead, or Welfare & People Lead. Every role must contribute before the team can allocate resources.

Begin with approximately 15 minutes of circuit training. Then brief teams on their crisis and give them around 20 minutes for their initial response. They should:
1. Study the map and identify their three highest priorities.
2. Consider the crisis from the perspective of each team role.
3. Place their limited resource tokens onto the map.
4. Identify who they cannot help yet.
5. Explain why they believe their plan is fair.

Before moving on, a leader challenges each team’s reasoning with questions such as “Who is getting nothing from you?”, “Why have you prioritised them?”, or “What happens if your decision is wrong?”

Teams then receive scenario-specific updates which change conditions on their map. They must reassess their priorities and move resources where necessary.

Each team also faces an Impossible Choice, where there is deliberately no perfect solution. They must agree a decision and explain who benefits, who loses out and why.

Later, teams receive an Aftermath update and decide how the community should move from emergency response into recovery.

Finally, each team receives a £10 million Build Back Better budget and chooses which long-term measures to fund to reduce the effects of a future crisis.

Finish with short team reports and a group discussion about fairness, vulnerability, infrastructure, international cooperation and why disasters affect communities differently.

Tags

• #teamwork
• decision making
• emergency response
• Global issues
• Problem solving
• teamwork
• World Challenge

Badge Links

• Teamwork - Goal
• World - International issue