Advancing school safety in Asia

This document developed by World Vision International, Asia Pacific Region provides cases studies from 8 different countries in Asia on Safe Schools initiatives. These initiatives are aimed to promote the three pillars of the Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSSF) as an integrated approach to reduce risk and promote resilience in the education sector. These three pillars are: Safe Learning Facilities; School Disaster Management; Risk Reduction and Resilience Education.

The case studies included in the document are: (i) Enabling children to raise community awareness on DRR; (ii) Advancing school safety in partnership with government; (iii) Strengthening students' safety through green school approach (iv) Scaling-up comprehensive school safety through effective collaboration; (v) Linking community-based DRM with school safety; (vi) Reducing earthquake risk in schools through preparedness and retrofitting; (vii) Child focused disaster risk reduction (CFDRR) and; (viii) Promoting children's leadership in DRR and resilience education.