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GADRRRES, Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector
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Global School Safety: Collective impact evaluation of the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector
The purpose of this study is to research and evaluate the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector (GADRRRES) operating model, using the five core components of the Collective Impact (CI) approach as a framework (
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Research-into-Action Brief: Community-based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM)
This brief highlights how localised, bottom-up disaster risk management (DRM) enables communities to have a say in building appropriate resilience mechanisms. This can only be effective if Community-Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) is founded on an
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Research-into-Action Brief: Understanding Scalability
This brief explores the meaning of “effective scaling up”. It observes that there are both quantitative and qualitative attributes of scaling up and that effective scaling up initiatives need to be adaptable, sustainable and successful in achieving their
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Research-into-Action Brief: Developing and Implementing Comprehensive School Safety Policy
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
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Research-into-Action Brief: School Emergency Drills
This brief explores how there is evidence that school drills play a pivotal role in both the gradual improvement of school disaster risk reduction, and response preparedness. There is also scholarly consensus that emergency response skills are important t
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Research-into-Action Brief: Post-Disaster Educational Continuity in Urban Floods
Education is a right of children and all human beings. Ensuring education for all children and youth is crucial for addressing sustainability goals and for adopting effective disaster risk reduction strategies. Urban floods have widespread impacts on the
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Research-into-Action Brief: Gender and Disasters- Considering Children
This brief explores how globally, women often suffer disproportionately higher impacts in disasters than men. In many instances where data is available, more women are shown to die compared to men and those that survive may also experience a decline in s
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Research-into-Action Brief: Including Children in Disaster Risk Reduction
Research shows that inclusion is easier to put forward in policy guidelines than to translate into practice. This brief explores how inclusion is a long-term process that requires sustainable transfer of power to people, including children, who usually la
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Research-into-Action Brief: Best Practices in Community-Based School Construction
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
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Research-into-Action Brief: Early Childhood and Disaster Risk Reduction
The impacts of hazards and threats can be significantly modified through adequate risk reduction and preparedness. The factors that contribute to effective Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) have been documented and widely applied. However, the nuances of DRR
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Research-into-Action Brief: Children's Impacts on Household Safety
This Research-into-Action Brief outlines what is known about Child-centred Risk Reduction (CCRR) education approaches that have proven effective in improving household risk and resilience levels. The need for improved program design and practice-based res
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Research-into-Action Brief: Child-Centred Disaster Risk Reduction
The past decade has seen an increased focus within research and practice on placing children at the centre of efforts to reduce disaster risk, including those risks associated with climate change. An increasing body of research demonstrates that children