Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) has become an important policy design framework to help reduce disaster impacts in the education sector, and practitioners have a crucial role. This brief reviews how policies are developed and the roles practitioners can

This brief explores how community-based approaches to school construction can improve local livelihoods, increase community satisfaction and expand children’s access to education. Yet many development partners and government bodies fail to ensure that com

The purpose of this study is to identify the causes of injuries and deaths in the Gorkha, Nepal Earthquake 2015 in order to provide a scientific basis for education and training of the Nepal public in earthquake preparedness and mitigation. The Nepal Risk

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

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

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

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

This publication synthesizes the lessons from past community-based school construction programs and projects around the globe. It provides guidance for engaging communities in mobilisation, planning, design, construction and post-construction maintenance