Due to a high rate of traffic facilities, South Korea intervened with mandatory traffic education in schools and extracurricular traffic education facilities in order to reduce child traffic fatalities and engage students in traffic and transportation edu

Due to government lacking a way to assess CSS policy interventions and efficiently identify high risk schools and apply appropriate interventions, Laos and Indonesia used the CSS Assessment Suite (three digital tools that assist governments to monitor, ev

This case study explores how Japan developed guidelines for local governments to plan and implement assessment and retrofitting projects, and established a national subsidy programme for school assessments and retrofits, in order to strengthen all high sc

This case study explores how China intervened with national seismic assessments of school buildings and prioritisation of retrofitting and construction to reduce the risk of earthquake-related injury and death in schools. This case study is part of a seri

Throughout the world, countries have been developing and implementing Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) policies that address safer learning facilities, school disaster management, and risk reduction and resilience education. The following case studies do

With a high natural hazard risk and lack of comprehensive policy addressing the wellbeing of children in emergencies, Philippines developed a comprehensive policy of supporting the security and wellbeing of children in emergencies and enacted the Children

On behalf of the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector (GADRRRES), Save the Children is proud to present this webinar, as part of a webinar series on urban Child-Centred Risk Reduction (CCRR) and Comprehensive

The purpose of this project is to identify trends in Comprehensive School Safety (CSS)-related policies in the Asia-Pacific region with attention to factors that may facilitate or block the development or implementation of policies yielding positive outco

With a high regional risk of earthquakes, fires, and school violence, Los Angeles developed and incorporated Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) into emergency planning, mandated regular earthquake and other emergency drills, and developed a S

Facing high earthquake risks and seismically susceptible school building stock, Uzbekistan intervened with a nationwide assessment of all schools and seismically retrofitted or reconstructed all schools needing structural intervention, with the goal of re

This case study explores how high hurricane and flooding risk and incomplete knowledge about DRR in communities led Cuba to incorporate DRR into the national curriculum and develop community DRR programmes with children in leadership roles, in order to el

With a high earthquake risk, seismically susceptible school buildings, and a lack of knowledge about earthquake-resistant training among the local mason population, Uttar Pradesh developed and incorporated earthquake-resistant school designs into governme