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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Latest Education and school safety additions in the Knowledge Base

With the rise in the incidence of disasters around the world, the Ghanian National Disaster Management Organization has shifted focus towards disaster prevention, said their National Coordinator....
Modern Ghana.com
Children have been found to identify dangers often overlooked by adults, according to Arjuna Eramudugolla, a project manager in the southern Matara District....
The New Humanitarian

Earthquakes are as inescapable as the weather. Even Mars and the Moon have them. Here on Earth, seismologists report that every year there are a couple of million earthquakes strong enough to be felt, a thousand or so that can bring down chimneys, and

This report presents first hand observations, summarizes data collected from various sources in Pakistan and includes early analysis of the available strong-motion records. It provides a brief background on the seismo-tectonic setting of the region

A document prepared to provide support to teachers, students and parents after the Tsunami. It is a community response to the crisis.

This report includes a series of mitigation case studies that were integrated into the campaign, which demonstrate the viability of schools as safe community shelters.

This conceptual framework is intended to help school governors and managers, and those who work with them on risk, safety and emergency management, to promote school safety more effectively. It can be used to assess a school’s strengths and weaknesses in

EFA Strategic Planning

Emergency situations, caused by armed conflict, chronic crises or natural disasters, are a major constraint to the achievement of Education for All. Yet children and adolescents in refugee, internal displacement, returnee or other

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