CCRR & school safety: Research-into-Action briefs

This brief highlights how localised, bottom-up disaster risk management (DRM) enables communities to have a say in building appropriate resilience mechanisms.

The brief outlines what is known about Child-Centred Risk Reduction (CCRR) education approaches that have proven effective in improving household risk and resilience levels.

This brief explores the evidence and how it shows that flood (and associated hazard) affected people are not helpless bystanders but active first-responders and change agents.

This brief explores the meaning of “effective scaling up”. It observes that there are both quantitative and qualitative attributes of scaling up.

This brief explores how there is evidence that school drills play a pivotal role in both the gradual improvement of school disaster risk reduction (DRR), and response preparedness.

This brief explores how community-based approaches to school construction can improve local livelihoods, increase community satisfaction and expand children’s access to education.

Ultimately, fostering inclusion in DRR means recognising that children, including the most marginalised, display capacities for dealing with hazards and disasters.

This brief explores how globally, women often suffer disproportionately higher impacts in disasters than men. These impacts are more pronounced where the socio-economic gap between the sexes is wider.

This brief reviews the research and practice literature about early childhood and DRR. A focus on early childhood can be incorporated at national, community, classroom and household levels.

This brief provides an outline of the rationale and supporting evidence for Child-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction (CCDRR) and suggests some important principles and recommendations for integrating child-centered approaches into DRR.