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.

Play and learn to stop disasters: Build your risk knowledge and strengthen your disaster preparedness.

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Educational materials

This comic book tells of drought on an animal farm. Albert the fox and his chicken girlfriend Martha present various ways of mitigating the effects of drought and combating desertification to the other animals. These include careful water management

Documents and publications

In January 2008, Neeti Solutions, a Pune-based software firm, organized a two-day event aimed at raising awareness on disaster management and disaster risk reduction. Over 400 children from 36 schools participated in numerous activities including game

Documents and publications

European and Mediterranean workshop on disaster reduction at school, held on 29-30 October 2007 in Paphos, Cyprus.

Session 1: Ensuring safety of schools
Session 2: Building a culture of risk
Session 3: Raising awareness through new tools
Concluding

photo by Rui Ornelas under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 copyright
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A call for taking adequate preventive measures against the landslide risk and implementing strong chains of disaster education...
New Era Publications Corporation
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Over 400 children participated in a two-day event aimed at raising awareness on disaster risk reduction...
India Together
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Tsunami operation: disaster preparedness, Indonesia
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"West Sumatra is a supermarket for disasters, earthquakes and tsunamis," Gamawan Fauzi, governor of the province, said as he opened a two-day National Exhibition of Disaster Preparedness in Padang, the capital city, in December.
The New Humanitarian
Documents and publications

This project report from UNESCO provides details of the work completed under the “Educational materials for education for natural disaster preparedness in Asia-Pacific in the context of education for sustainable development” project. Details of the

Documents and publications

This publication provides 35 good practices and lessons learned as concrete examples of how to make children safer in their classrooms and educate them about disasters.

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