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Comprehensive school safety (CSS) policy case study: Students leading communities in disaster risk reduction through informal education in Cuba
29 October 2018
Source
Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector
Publication Year
2017
Number of pages
6 p.
This case study explores how high hurricane and flooding risk and incomplete knowledge about disaster risk reduction (DRR) in communities led Cuba to incorporate DRR into the national curriculum and develop community DRR programmes with children in leadership roles, in order to elevate the roles of children and educate communities in DRR.
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