Risk Reduction and Resilience

The CSSF 2022-2030 is an all-hazards, all-risks approach to protecting children and education, offering governments a practical framework to make urgent progress across a multitude of children’s rights and the sustainable development agenda.

The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030 outlines seven clear targets and four priorities for action to prevent new and reduce existing disaster risks.

The Targets and Indicators are intended to guide policy and program development and aim to stimulate monitoring and evaluation of risk reduction and resilience efforts in the education sector. They are expected to support national and sub-national education authorities to incorporate risk reduction into education sector strategies and plans.

GADRRRES members have compiled an CSS Operational Guidance Catalogue, and a series of Best Practice guides, Case Studies, and Templates to support implementation of the CSS Framework, and CSS Targets and Indicators

The SSCA template is for the national (sub-national) coordination mechanism for school safety and education in emergencies to populate.

The Roadmap for Safer and Resilient Schools is a step-by-step guide intended to provide support to governments of developing countries that are exposed to natural hazards. Specifically, it focuses on the design of intervention strategies and investment plans to make schools safer and resilient at scale. The guide also encompasses the recovery and reconstruction of school facilities affected by disasters.

These guidance notes have been developed for policymakers and planners of local, regional and national government bodies and all other organizations interested or engaged in enhancing the safety of school populations and the resiliency of the buildings they occupy.

These videos are intended to strongly justify why the viewer should consider a community-based approach to school construction and why the viewer should insist on a safer school approach that considers hazards in the site plan, design, and construction of the school.

The focus of this manual is on the process of community- based school construction. This manual  also shows how community-based approaches to safer school construction can do more than just provide safer school buildings in hazard-prone places.

VISUS is a methodology developed by SPRINT researchers, that permits to assess the safety of school facilities at regional scale, with the purpose of supporting the definition of pragmatic safety upgrading strategies. It has been adopted by UNESCO for the assessment of the risks affecting the education sector. 

This guidance is intended to support education authorities and disaster management officers to make decisions and allocate resources to meet shelter needs of the population, to protect children’s rights to safety and wellbeing, educational continuity, and to protect education sector investments.

The Participatory School Disaster Management Toolkit contains a set of tools and resources for use in the implementation of school disaster management. It is broken down into three parts: participatory school disaster management handbook, our school disaster management plan and student and community participatory activities. It contains a number of tools and templates for use and adaptation to different contexts.

This guide and toolkit is designed to provide step-by-step guidance for field teams on how to plan and conduct a child-centred multi-risk assessment in the various contexts in which Plan International works. It is recommended that the assessment team be formed of staff with technical capacity in Child Protection and DRR and may include other sector programme staff. 

These checklists are intended for education authorities as a template for their own guidance material for use in schools, nationally. 

Standard operating procedures for emergencies and disasters for schools are an essential part of school disaster management policy. They are a set of written and required safety procedures to be known and followed by all school workers and students, in the event of disasters or emergencies.

The goal of school drills is to ensure the safety of every student, staff, or visitor, in the event of a disaster or emergency, and where possible to safeguard school property. 

This second edition provides messages for all types of hazards including 13 major hazards and family disaster preparedness.  The revised key messages, in this second edition, are updated to cover additional hazards and have been reviewed for integration of climate change messages, messages regarding pets and livestock and child protection-specific guidance during crises and emergencies.

The document provides a thorough rationale for including DRR in school curricula within an Education for Sustainable Development framework.

This toolkit aims to contribute to educators’ and education unionists’ skills and baseline knowledge in this regard. This toolkit is meant to be neither comprehensive nor prescriptive. Instead, it builds on existing research, analyses of needs and constraints, and best practices. The most it hopes to achieve is to serve as a stepping stone for developing context- and user-specific plans for CCE-focused advocacy.

This 2020 Words into Action guide on Engaging Children and Youth in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Building offers access to global expertise, communities of practice and networks of practitioners with specific advice on how to support and engage children and youth.

The Children’s Climate Cards provide a series of fun, interactive activities to engage children on the climate change agenda and inspire a global children’s call for climate action now.