Endline Evaluation Report of Building Resilience in Schools in Urban China

The frequency of various natural and social disasters in China is relatively high. Disasters can affect Chinese children seriously, because children are usually more vulnerable than adults and need the care and support of adults, so they are more vulnerable to the external environment. To improve Chinese children’s safety knowledge and skills, reduce their vulnerability to disaster, strengthen school capacity for disaster and safety management and resilience education, Save the Children International (UK) Beijing Representative Office (hereinafter referred to as the “SC”) disaster reduction project team with partners, launched the Building resilience in schools in urban China project.

The second phase of the Project, launched in the second half of 2018, builds on the first phase of the project launched in 2015-2018, and is committed to improving the preparedness and resilience of urban schools and families in China to cope with disasters and daily risks, supporting the implementation of safety policies in schools and education systems, and implementing safety policies in a structured and multi-dimensional way to build resilience. In 2023, the evaluation team was commissioned by the SC to conduct an endline evaluation of the second phase of the project. The outcome of the endline evaluation is to evaluate the achievements of the indicators based on the three outcomes set by the project, so as to help SC and its project partners to analyze the effectiveness, impact and sustainability of the project implementation, so as to provide decision-making basis for the follow-up work. The evaluation team went to Shijiazhuang in Hebei, Wuzhou in Guangxi, Taizhou in Jiangsu, Zhengzhou in Henan and Tonghua in Jilin, and conducted online interviews with relevant experts.

The endline evaluation compared the changes between baseline and endline in each indicator to assess the effect of project implementation. Given the presence of many stakeholders in the project and the need to collect large amounts of data, the evaluation used a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to collect the data. 3,936 students participated in the evaluation, of which 180 students attended the qualitative interview and 3,756 students responded to the quantitative survey. The evaluation used a stratified sampling method to collect quantitative data.