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Displaying 15 of about 69 resultsSynopsisNatural hazards, some fueled by a changing climate, have a devastating effect on children’s education and lives in every corner of the globe. Through its Global Program for Safer Schools (GPSS), the World Bank works hand-in-hand with client countries to ensure the resilience of school infrastructure. Managed by the Bank’s global unit for disaste…
Health professionals are calling for a ban on fracking in Pennsylvania after three “bombshell” studies—published despite resistance from fossil fuel interests—linked exposure to the oil and gas extraction process to childhood lymphoma, asthma, and low birth weight.“I live in Washington County. There is no resident who lives more than 10 miles away from…
Making Cities Resilient 2030 (MCR2030) and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Regional Office for the Americas and the Caribbean (UNDRR-ROAMC) invite MCR2030 Local governments and participating entities to share good practices and lessons learned on local governments engagement and Collaboration with their local communities for disaster risk red…
Desenvolver uma cultura de prevenção não só no âmbito escolar como em toda a cidade. Esse é um dos objetivos do projeto ‘Escolas Seguras – Desenvolvendo a Resiliência Através da Educação’, uma parceria entre a Subsecretaria de Proteção e Defesa Civil de Nova Iguaçu e a Secretaria de Educação, que realizou nesta sexta-feira (31), um exercício simulado de…
Em pouco mais de cinco minutos o estudante Douglas Santos Vieira, de 17 anos, que é deficiente auditivo, deixou as dependências da Escola Municipal Monteiro Lobato, no Centro de Nova Iguaçu, durante o exercício simulado de incêndio, realizado pela Subsecretaria de Proteção e Defesa Civil. Ele e outros 1.735 alunos participaram da ação, que faz parte do…
Children present with unique needs, particularly in a disaster. One challenge is that children may be completely dependent on adults for their care. With this in mind, and considering the physical, psychological and legal needs of children during and after a disaster, a group of stakeholders devised the outline for an educational pre-disaster video for…
Young people from across the Americas and the Caribbean have asked for a greater role in preparing and implementing policies to reduce disaster risk in one of the most hazard-prone regions of the world.
The Youth Forum for Disaster Risk Reduction - The Americas and the Caribbean was an opportunity for some of the region’s 106 million young people to sh…
[...]State legislators this year introduced half a dozen bills focused on extreme heat in schools, and a few are still in play as the legislative session draws to a close. They are relatively modest measures, but they’re a start.One bill, AB 384, would require the state Department of Education to come up with recommendations for maximum indoor air tempe…
Children worry their communities are becoming unlivable as deadly wildfires, heat waves, hurricanes and floods delay learning, devastate school buildings and exact a toll on mental health.
The wildfires that ripped through California towns torched school buildings and postponed the start of school as students and teachers were left homeless. A deadly d…
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The federal government traditionally funds programs pre-disaster to mitigate the effects of hazards and post-disaster to assist communities to recover and rebuild. While funding vehicles may operate under different names and emphasize resilience more today than a decade ago, little attention is paid beyond physical infrastructure improvements or…
As a country prone to natural hazards, Cuba has begun to incorporate lessons and exercises on disaster risk reduction into its school curriculum. Learn how children are leading the way for a society rooted in preparedness and resilience.
Four years ago, Hurricane Sandy marked many of the children, teachers and families of Cuba for life. Some of th…
By Jennifer Head and Justin Remais
New research points to why reopening elementary schools is the safest bet and what else needs to happen for schools to have the best chance of staying open.
While only a fraction of the country’s 50 million public school kids headed back to school in-person this month, many have already found them…
Children, a priority in disaster emergency management and response.
UNICEF's Latin America and Caribbean Regional Office and the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency (CDEMA), signed a Memorandum of Understanding to co-operate on the development of more resilient communities, states and regional actors in preparation for disasters or emergenci…
New York, 5 November 2018 – Students attending a World Tsunami Awareness Day Event in New York have called for more educational programmes on disaster risk reduction from an early age.
Twenty students, aged 16 to 18 years, and their teachers from the United Nations International School and Keio Academy discussed ways to be better informed to prevent an…
CARTAGENA, 20 June, 2018 – Effective disaster risk management requires an “inclusive, all-of-society approach” that reflects the views of those who suffer most from such events, the head of the UNISDR told a regional conference on disaster risk reduction.
Policy makers must heed the “voices of those who suffer disproportionately in such events. Pe…