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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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Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction

This resource, developed by the Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), provides comprehensive guidance to support the design, construction, and retrofitting of disaster-resilient school infrastructure. It responds to the increasing exposure of millions of children to natural hazards—such as earthquakes, floods, storms, landslides, and

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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. यह संसाधन “अधिक सुरक्षित विद्यालय निर्माण संबंधी मार्गदर्शी सूचना” (Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction) स्कूलों को आपदाओं के प्रति अधिक सुरक्षित और सहनशील बनाने के लिए तैयार किया गया एक व्यापक मार्गदर्शन दस्तावेज़ है। इसे INEE और GFDRR जैसे अंतरराष्ट्रीय

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