Impacts of Disasters on the Education Sector in Lao PDR

These studies on impacts of disasters on the education sector builds an evidence-based rationale to raise awareness on integrating DRR concerns into education policies, programmes and plans and to advocate for changing practices in school construction especially in incorporating disaster risk resilient features in new school construction. In Lao, the study focused mainly on urban fire, flood, windstorm and earthquake.

Informação sobre o Recurso

Tipo de Recurso

Case Study

Publicado

Publicado por

European Commission, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Asian Disaster Preparedness Center, Ministry of Education, National Disaster Management Office

Tema(s)

Humanitarian Sectors - Education
Risk Reduction and Resilience
School Infrastructure and Construction

Zona geográfica de enfoque

Laos