Roadmap for safer schools: Guidance note

A Road Map to promote a long-term systematic approach to improving the safety of school infrastructure at risk from natural hazards.

In 2014, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) launched the Global Program for Safer Schools (GPSS) with the aim to make school facilities, and the communities they serve, more resilient to natural hazards. As part of the program, this guidance note has been developed for the preparation of safer school projects and programs.

The guidance note gives specific recommendations on school resilience building, organised in the following thematics:

• school infrastructure baseline (pp. 1-14);
• construction environment (pp. 15-30);
• financial environment (pp. 31-40);
• disaster risk assessment (pp. 41-52);
• safer school investment opportunities (pp. 53-64).