**6. Child participation**

Children's participation in the preparation of contingency plans is realized by including a declaration of the results of the children's forum discussion, sebagai berikut: (1). In disaster management, the vulnerable groups are prioritized; (2) The needs for clothing, food and shelter are adjusted; (3) Avoid sexual violence against children; (4) Periodic disaster mitigation activities for children; (5) Basic rights to education, spatial health, sharing and assembly are provided by the government; (6) Increase signposts that are easy for children to understand and lighting for evacuation roads; (7) Making an evacuation map; (8) Ensuring a comfortable place of refuge for vulnerable groups; (9) Involving children as caregivers for others; (10) Children need food that is varied and different from adults; when in evacuation; (11) The government opens the opportunity to cooperate with other parties and does not exploit children when a disaster occurs; (12) Speed up the creation of lost documents; (13) Mode of transportation for vulnerable people; (14) Increase the number of toilets in the evacuation posts and differentiate sanitation facilities for children and adults; (15) Availability of health experts and psychologists for children; (16) There are trauma healing activities as a priority; (17) Additional internal displace person/refugee rooms for children; (18) Use of social media as a means of communication.

*Participatory Contingency Plan to Covid 19 Adaptation of Merapi Volcano Eruption - Indonesia DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98360*
