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.

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Latest Education and school safety additions in the Knowledge Base

Update

4 February 2024

What should children in Japan do if a quake hits when no adults are with them?

To find out what children must do if a tremor hits when parents, teachers or other adults are not around, Mainichi Shimbun interviewed Satoko Oki, a seismologist and associate professor at Keio University's Faculty of Environment and Information Studies.

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Update

18 January 2024

Report cards grade med and nursing schools on their response to climate change

In medical school, students spend long hours poring over textbooks and notes to learn how to care for their future patients. And a growing number of students insist that their education must include climate change.

Yale Climate Connections

Update

5 January 2024

Strengthening resilience: enhancing safety through joint evacuation drills in Busovača

The municipality of Busovača, Bosnia & Herzegovina, conducted joint evacuation drills to raise awareness among the younger population on emergency situations.

United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction - Regional Office for Europe & Central Asia

Documents and publications

8 January 2024

Informing disaster-risk management policies for education infrastructure using scenario-based recovery analyses

This case study accounts for local practice influencing recovery through interviews with stakeholders involved in post-disaster management in the region.

Documents and publications

31 December 2023

What inclusive education means for d/deaf learners in the Philippines

This policy brief discusses the current state-of-play of Deaf education in the Philippines, and the gaps and challenges in extending inclusivity to the Filipino Deaf community in the context of education.

Documents and publications

11 December 2023

Narrative-based disaster learning programmes simultaneously improve people’s disaster awareness scores, willingness to pay and settlement preferences

This study provides causal evidence, of the extent to which information provided by an unspecified number of people—and stories of those suffering because of a disaster—can effectively change people’s awareness of disaster prevention.

Documents and publications

8 December 2023

The journey and ambition: Comprehensive school safety program experience

The Comprehensive School Safety Framework takes an “all-hazards, all-risks” approach, aiming to provide strategic guidance to duty-bearers and their partners to promote safe, equitable, and continuous access to quality education for all.

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Update

16 November 2023

Floods pose significant risk to education and healthcare in Cambodia

The health consequences of temporary hospital closures have lasting effects on children. This worsening of children’s health could be critical in a country where 32 out of 100 children are stunted and at risk of cognitive and physical limitations.

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