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The Model Safe School Programme (MSSP) is designed to assist Participating States with implementing processes that result in safer and greener educational facilities. Its Toolkit comprises a policy that can be adopted by governments and Ministries of Education, tools for assessing the level of safety and greenness of schools, a template Emer…
This is a report highlighting key initiatives taken at EU level in support of the objectives on the occasion of the Midterm Review of the Sendai Framework 2015-2030.This report, released to mark the Midterm Review at the UN in New York, presents some of the EU’s key initiatives on the road to strengthening global preparedness, reducing risk and building…
Save the Children’s series of National Data Snapshots explores data on the climate and inequality crisis is a collection of country briefings to support national advocacy to compliment the Generation Hope agenda for a greener and fairer future for children. The spotlight seeks to include data on climate change, finance policy and outcomes for children,…
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the official discovery of Minamata disease, which affected south-western Japan. The disease was caused by the release of methylmercury in the industrial wastewater from a chemical factory. It sparked debates on "industrial disasters" and brought about some legislative regulations in Japan…
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The International Day for Disaster Reduction (IDDR) is a day to celebrate how people and communities are reducing their risk to disasters and to promote a global culture of disaster reduction, including disaster prevention, mitigation and preparedness. “Home Safe Home” is the slogan for IDDR in 2017 following a year in which 24.2 million ne…
This report summarizes the state of food security and agriculture in Indonesia in 2021 as well as the World Food Programme's (WFP) operations in the country. Indonesia has been re-classified as a lower-middle-income country based on its Gross National Income (GNI) of USD 3,870 per capita per year (World Bank, 2021). On the 2020 Global Hunger Index it is…
This guidance document is meant to support practitioners working in disaster prone contexts to develop and implement more effective integrated resilience programming. It promotes programming that cuts across different fields of work like rights awareness, food security, emergency preparedness, livelihoods, education, health etc.
The publication include…
This Republic Act No. 10821 of the Government of the Philippines mandates the provision of emergency relief and protection for children before, during, and after disaster and other emergency situations. It refers to situations when children are gravely threatened or endangerd by circumstances that affect their survival and normal development.
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This policy brief, “We Need To Do Better”, seeks to improve knowledge of and evidence for strengthening child protection elements within laws and regulations related to disaster risk management. Specifically, this study calls on governments and disaster agencies to counter the lack of attention, systems and inadequate investment in child protection and…
Eight years after the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and two years after the Japanese government lifted evacuation orders in areas of Namie and Iitate, radiation levels remain too high for the safe return of thousands of Japanese citizen evacuees.
This report summarizes information from Greenpeace’s latest extensive radiation survey in…
Due to government lacking a way to assess CSS policy interventions and efficiently identify high risk schools and apply appropriate interventions, Laos and Indonesia used the CSS Assessment Suite (three digital tools that assist governments to monitor, evaluate, and intervene for school safety). This allowed efficient gathering and managing of school-le…
Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) has become an important policy design framework to help reduce disaster impacts in the education sector, and practitioners have a crucial role. This brief reviews how policies are developed and the roles practitioners can have in developing and implementing policies. It then discusses how the CSS Framework was developed…
This case study explores how China intervened with national seismic assessments of school buildings and prioritisation of retrofitting and construction to reduce the risk of earthquake-related injury and death in schools. This case study is part of a series of case studies documenting how countries have been developing and implementing Comprehensive Sch…
It is now well established that children are disproportionately affected by shocks and stresses related to climate change, disasters, and conflict – and that these risks are becoming increasingly severe, complex, and intertwined across rural and urban geographies. At the same time, governments and non-governmental actors are recognizing the ri…
Over the past few years, Australia has experienced the enormous impacts of floods, fires, and the COVID-19 pandemic – testing our resilience like never before.
Extreme weather events and disasters, including COVID-19, don’t discriminate; but their impacts are often felt disproportionately across communities. Often, women and children, those with disabi…