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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Latest Education and school safety additions in the Knowledge Base

Documents and publications

8 January 2024

Informing disaster-risk management policies for education infrastructure using scenario-based recovery analyses

This case study accounts for local practice influencing recovery through interviews with stakeholders involved in post-disaster management in the region.

Documents and publications

11 December 2023

Narrative-based disaster learning programmes simultaneously improve people’s disaster awareness scores, willingness to pay and settlement preferences

This study provides causal evidence, of the extent to which information provided by an unspecified number of people—and stories of those suffering because of a disaster—can effectively change people’s awareness of disaster prevention.

Documents and publications

8 December 2023

The journey and ambition: Comprehensive school safety program experience

The Comprehensive School Safety Framework takes an “all-hazards, all-risks” approach, aiming to provide strategic guidance to duty-bearers and their partners to promote safe, equitable, and continuous access to quality education for all.

The floating village on the water of Tonle Sap Lake in Cambodia.

Update

16 November 2023

Floods pose significant risk to education and healthcare in Cambodia

The health consequences of temporary hospital closures have lasting effects on children. This worsening of children’s health could be critical in a country where 32 out of 100 children are stunted and at risk of cognitive and physical limitations.

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Documents and publications

11 November 2023

Climate change and sustainability in Spanish classrooms: State of the art and didactic proposal

This paper designs a learning situation on sustainability and climate change that can be implemented in the Spanish and European contexts.

Documents and publications

11 November 2023

Multi-hazard resilience of higher educational institutions in Asia Pacific

This collaborative endeavor aims to facilitate the exchange of challenges, lessons learned, and innovative practices in preparedness, response, and recovery across various stages of the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

Update

30 October 2023

Training of trainers to improve geological disasters resilience in Malaysia

We have witnessed a growing number of geological disasters due to climatic shifts. One such disaster is the landslide, and this can be attributed to intense rainfall coupled with high slope angles in areas previously not expected to be susceptible.

European Geosciences Union

Documents and publications

26 October 2023

Futures at risk: Climate-induced shocks and their toll on education for crisis-affected children

This 2023 background study presents estimates of the number of crisis-affected children and adolescents whose education was disrupted by climate shocks, as well as the number of forced displacements of school-aged children due to extreme weather events.