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Displaying 9 of about 9 resultsThis document introduces UNCRD’s project “Reducing Vulnerability of School Children to Earthquakes” in Asia-Pacific region and presents educational guidelines and practices on earthquake preparedness and disaster management carried out in Fiji, India, Indonesia and Uzbekistan. It describes teacher’s guides and handbooks, and student workbooks that have…
A project of School eartchquake safety initiative (SESI):
This publication not only summarizes the good practices and lessons learned from the project countries but also highlights the task ahead to up-scale from model projects to countrywide activities on school safety.
The project on "Reducing Vulnerability of School Children to Earthquake" under th…
Facing high earthquake risks and seismically susceptible school building stock, Uzbekistan intervened with a nationwide assessment of all schools and seismically retrofitted or reconstructed all schools needing structural intervention, with the goal of reducing earthquake-related death and injury.
This case study is part of a series of case studies doc…
This document gives some good practices of the implementation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in school curricula, with the objective of developing exemplary educational approaches worldwide to ensure a sustainable future. It addresses the prevention and reduction of disasters and climate change subjects within the environmental sector su…
This publication focuses on the importance of education in disaster prevention and makes recommendations on how to support and build on local and national initiatives to reduce the risk of disasters through education. It provides a brief overview of major hazards and disaster risks in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States…
Throughout the world, countries have been developing and implementing Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) policies that address the three CSS pillars: safer learning facilities (pillar 1), school disaster management (pillar 2), and risk reduction and resilience education (pillar 3). The following case studies document work in each of these three CSS pilla…
Education for sustainable development, case studies and best practices:This report is a compilation of case studies and grapples with the crucial question of merging disaster management education into the broader agenda of education for sustainable development. It shows how communities, scientists, activists, non-governmental organizations, teachers, st…
This document addresses the issues of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in the area of education in the form of a compendium of various educational activities and initiatives, both in the formal and informal spheres of education, being implemented at regional level in the Central Asian countries. The compendium gathers materials on good practices, methodolo…
This publication focuses on the importance of education in disaster prevention and makes recommendations on how to support and build on local and national initiatives to reduce the risk of disasters through education. It provides a brief overview of major hazards and disaster risks in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States…