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Displaying 6 of about 6 resultsBy 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…
Master of Disaster (MOD) is an inclusive, informative, and fun-filled board game that aims to teach children aged 7 years old and above about how to prepare and actively respond to the most common disasters in the Philippines. Apart from instilling awareness and understanding of the importance of proper disaster response, the game also teaches responsib…
In an effort to prevent the transmission of Covid-19, governments around the world have closed schools. School closures are negatively impacting the well-being of children and young people and, in some contexts, might not be effectively reducing transmission. The INEE and the Alliance call on policymakers to:
Consider the impacts of school closures o…
By Alex Broadbent, Director of the Institute for the Future of Knowledge and Professor of Philosophy, University of Johannesburg, and Benjamin T H Smart, Associate Professor, University of Johannesburg
Suppose you had the choice between two health policies, A and B. Policy A would result in the death of a lot of elderly people. Policy B woul…
During the 2012–2016 drought in La Guajira, Colombia, child mortality rates rose to 23.4 out of 1000. Most of these children belonged to the Wayuu indigenous community, the largest and one of the most vulnerable in Colombia. At the municipal level, this study found a significant positive correlation between the average child mortality rate and household…
KOBE – The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, the global roadmap to reduce disaster losses and strengthening the processes for doing so by 2030, highlights the pivotal role of stakeholders working in science, engineering, technology, and innovation (SETI). In particular, it states that science and traditional knowledge are…