Roadmap for Safer Schools
Each year countries suffer great tragedy when natural disasters destroy schools and disrupt children’s education. In addition to causing immediate harm to children, there is mounting evidence that the direct impact of natural disasters can translat...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/473931494931274888/Roadmap-for-safer-schools http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27743 |
| Summary: | Each year countries suffer great tragedy
when natural disasters destroy schools and disrupt
children’s education. In addition to causing immediate harm
to children, there is mounting evidence that the direct
impact of natural disasters can translate into a series of
indirect long-term effects. For some time, multilateral and
bilateral development finance institutions, United Nations
(UN) agencies, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have
been engaged in efforts to make schools resilient to natural
hazards. Despite these efforts, however, the safety of
school facilities in many disaster-prone countries is
unknown, and governments and donors continue to finance new
school construction without taking sufficient account of
safety. In 2014, the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction
and Recovery (GFDRR) launched the Global Program for Safer
Schools (GPSS). Through the GPSS, GFDRR support programs
designed to establish safer school facilities in countries
where the government has firmly committed to a reform or
investment program in the education sector. GFDRR provides
technical assistance to ensure that such education sector
programs finance safer school facilities. The aim of the
GPSS is to make school facilities, and the communities they
serve, more resilient to natural hazards. This Roadmap is
focused specifically on school infrastructure (which
includes the school site and buildings). For investment
opportunities to be effective and to have maximum impact at
community and national scales, it is important that this
support is coordinated with investments in school disaster
management, risk reduction and resilience in education, and
disaster preparedness in other sectors. |
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