Education & School Safety

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Documents and publications
Case Study
This case study explores how Japan developed guidelines for local governments to plan and implement assessment and retrofitting projects, and established a national subsidy programme for school assessments and retrofits.
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This document details Uzbekistan's efforts to retrofit or rebuild over 8,500 seismically unsafe school buildings. The initiative aimed to enhance earthquake resilience in schools with assessments, structural interventions, and interagency cooperation.
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This guide provides up-to-date, authoritative information that schools can use to develop a comprehensive strategy for addressing natural hazards. It presents information and guidance on:

  • Identifying natural hazards that could potentially impact a
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This guide outlines ways in which adverse environmental impacts can be avoided after disasters, and good practices can be promoted. It covers sectors including settlements and land use planning; building construction; waste management; energy; infrastructure; water, sanitation and hygiene; agriculture and livelihoods; and education. It highlights the importance of flood risk management, landslide prevention and treatment, and management of forests after disasters.
Supporting Nepal to Build Back Better
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Publications
This brochure offers a succinct look at UNDP’s key contributions to Nepal’s recovery and the efforts to Build Back Better and Stronger over the past two years.
sierra leone 2017 pdna
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PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments
This Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA) covers the damage, losses, and recovery needs following the 2017 landslides and flooding in Sierra Leone.
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Case Study
This document provides a review of Japan’s Program for Earthquake-Resistant School Buildings.
Documents and publications
This collaboration between Lancaster University and Save the Children researched children and young people’s experiences of the UK winter 2013/14 floods. The authors used creative arts methods to work with flood-affected children and communicate their ideas to policy. Children, in fact are often ignored in disaster-related planning and policy development.
Save the Children’s Earthquake Response in Nepal: A Special One-Year Progress Report
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Publications
This report presents the Save the Children's one-year response and recovery efforts to the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal.
2016 Malawi Drought PDNA
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PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments
This PDNA provides an analysis of the physical, socioeconomic, and human impacts of the 2015-2016 drought in Malawi. It analyzes the challenges and lessons from the ongoing drought response and provides recommendations for improved drought resilience.

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