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Education and school safety

Policies and activities in the education sector to protect students and educators from disasters impacts, ensure continuity of education through all expected hazards and strengthen risk reduction and resilience through education.

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Japan is using Augmented Reality to teach children the dangers of flash floods.

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A class using the Stop Disasters game for education purposes
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Reza Habibisaravi
From simulation to resilience: using the Stop Disasters game and local data to teach disaster risk reduction
No simulation can fully represent the complexity of real disasters. Stop Disasters simplifies reality. However, when combined with local hazard information and a structured learning approach, it provides students with a safe environment to make decisions.
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Documents and publications
Financing implementation of the comprehensive school safety framework: Policy brief

This policy brief provides a first entry point for governments who have endorsed or are implementing aspects of the Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSSF) to identify potential financial resources they can access, and how to secure them.

Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector (GADRRRES)
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Documents and publications
Heat smart schools: Guidance for building resilience to extreme heat

Heat Smart Schools is a guidance framework by CDRI to help schools adapt to rising extreme heat risks. With over two billion children projected to face frequent heatwaves by 2050, the document emphasizes that heat threatens health, learning, and equity.

Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure (CDRI)
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Documents and publications
Integrating the education sector into the National Adaptation plan process: a briefing for NAP teams

This report aims to support National Adaptation Plan (NAP) teams to consider the education sector in the NAP process.

National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network
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Documents and publications
Engaging the education sector in the National Adaptation Plan process

This guidance note aims to support education ministries in engaging effectively throughout the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) process.

National Adaptation Plan (NAP) Global Network
Research briefs
School in a hot world: what research is saying about children’s health and learning

Climate change is making southern Africa hotter. While much attention has focused on climate impacts like droughts, floods and food insecurity, another crisis is unfolding quietly inside classrooms.

Conversation Media Group, the
School drill in Vanuatu
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Vanuatu Marks First International Day in Memory of the Victims of Earthquakes

On 29 April 2026, Vanuatu marked its first national observance of the International Day in Memory of the Victims of Earthquakes, bringing together partners to strengthen earthquake preparedness and disaster resilience.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Sub-Regional Office for the Pacific
woman on the construction of a hut at Omorate on Ethiopia
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Israel Hinkossa
Gamifying Gadaa: Indigenous knowledge meets real trees
A statistics graduate in rural Ethiopia built a game that translates the UNESCO‑recognized Oromo Gadaa democracy into digital climate action, allowing players to earn points that fund real‑world, community‑verified reforestation.
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