Towards a learning culture of safety and resilience: technical guidance for integrating disaster risk reduction in the school curriculum

This technical guidance encourages the incorporation of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) insights and criteria into disaster risk reduction (DRR) curriculum review and development. It offers a rationale for DRR education, includes a typology of approaches for integrating DRR in the curriculum, elaborates learning outcomes, demonstrates learning and teaching approaches, showcases planning, assessment, monitoring and evaluation tools, provides case studies of noteworthy practice, advises on developing curriculum materials and gives guidance on the scaling up and mainstreaming of DRR curricula. It is intended for ministries of education, other educational jurisdictions, international and national non-governmental organizations and those in multiplier positions within education.