Building a culture of safety through education: framework to systematize ENDPR

This publication targets schools and educational authorities engaged in Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and Education for Natural Disaster Preparedness and Reduction (ENDPR). It provides a synthesis of ESD and ENDPR targeting a range of stakeholders including governmental, prefectural and municipal institutions and officials, parents, and people in the community, thereby enabling them to cooperate and collaborate to reduce disaster risk and save lives.

The Framework to systematize ENDPR is intended as a positive trigger to facilitate the “inclusion of disaster risk reduction knowledge in relevant sections of school curricula at all levels” (Hyogo Framework for Action 2005-2015) and to enhance global efforts to integrate disaster risk reduction into school curricula and school safety infrastructures and procedures. It also aims to continue the dialogue on the nature of ENDPR, how it could be developed and made to prevail in the Asia-Pacific region as well as in Japan, and how to improve capacity-building for teachers and curriculum specialists: in other words to create a culture of safety and a sustainable society resilient to the natural disasters.

This publication was developed as part of the research component of the Japan Funds-In-Trust funded Regional Asia-Pacific ASPnet Project for Japan Solidarity and Disaster Risk Reduction in Education (“Japan Solidarity Project”), which was coordinated by the UNESCO Asia and Pacific Regional Bureau for Education.