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Safer Schools, Resilient Communities: A Comparative Assessment of School Safety after the 2015 Nepal (Gorkha) Earthquakes

The effects of the earthquake on Nepal’s educational infrastructure offer a rare opportunity to study whether previous interventions to improve building practices, combined with community engagement, have resulted in safer schools and communities. The primary questions considered in this study were: Firstly how did damage at purportedly disaster resistant public school buildings, whether retrofitted or […]

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Towards Safer School Construction – A community-based approach

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 of safer schools. The approach seeks to achieve the twin goals of safer schools and more resilient communities. It treats school construction as a community

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Making Child Friendly Cities through School Safety: A Case Study

So much is said about future of cities and yet city planning is not done by those who have a long future: children. This is odd. The 108th issue of Southasiadisaster.net is titled ‘Children in Urban Space: Making Child Friendly Cities’ highlights the concept of a ‘Child Friendly City’. This issue of Southasiadisasters.net outlines the

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अधिक सुरक्षित विद्यालय निर्माण संबंधी मार्गदर्शी सूचना

Hindi version of the Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction developed by INEE and GFDRR. Source: InterAgency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) , 2010. अधिक सुरक्षित विद्यालय निर्माण संबंधी मार्गदर्शी सूचना http://www.recoveryplatform.org/assets/publication/infra/Guidance_Notes_Safe_School_Construction_Hindi.pdf

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