Education and school safety

Policies and activities in the education sector to protect students and educators from disasters impacts, ensure continuity of education through all expected hazards and strengthen risk reduction and resilience through education.

Play and learn to stop disasters: Build your risk knowledge and strengthen your disaster preparedness.

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Latest Education and school safety additions in the Knowledge Base

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This article presents "Sismopoli", a board game focused on seismic risk reduction from an urban perspective, as a tool to make complex issues more manageable and understandable.

International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction (Elsevier)
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Documents and publications

This U.S.-based report provides risk assessment frameworks and testing strategies to curb COVID-19 transmission in K-12 schools, aiming to protect health while ensuring safe in-person learning through evidence-based mitigation and testing protocols.

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Duke University
Rockefeller Foundation, the
A man overlooks a wildfire visible from San Francisco under a hazy sky turned orange
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Rebuilding after a disaster is about restoring a sense of security for families, especially children. Much is needed to respond consequences of the wildfires for children and discussion of the unique challenges they face surrounding disasters.

Conversation Media Group, the
Australian children sitting during a school assembly
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This month, Australian Red Cross marks a decade of helping young Australians build resilience through the much-loved Pillowcase Workshop. Since launching in 2015, the program has reached 100,000 children, giving them confidence to face emergencies.

Australian Red Cross
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In Mongolia, UNESCO is working with partners to build education system resilience against extreme winter weather, such as dzuds, to ensure continuous learning.

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization - Headquarters
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This study aims to determine the disaster literacy and disaster preparedness levels of adults and the factors influencing these levels in Türkiye. The resilience of communities to disasters is an indicator of their preparedness for such events.

Natural Hazards (Springer)
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Valentin Forand Luc François
The Prefecture of Isère and the Rectorate of Grenoble in France have collaborated on an innovative project to strengthen risk awareness among school students. This project uses an immersive educational website, "Explorisk38":
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This report shows YFCA's climate-resilient interventions in various sectors as its effort towards building community resilience and sustaining its intervention under increased climate threats.

Yemen Family Care Association
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