Education & School Safety

This is about the program implemented by Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) to improve the structural safety of thousands of schools across the country.

This document provides a review of Japan’s Program for Earthquake-Resistant School Buildings.

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.

This report presents the Save the Children's one-year response and recovery efforts to the 2015 Gorkha earthquake in Nepal.

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.

This report presents an overview of the current situation in the 14 most affected districts by the 2015 Nepal Earthquake and UNICEF's work with children and their communities to ensure reconstruction with resilience.

This last use case from the Global Agenda Council on Risk and Resilience highlights tangible examples from Nepal of where multi-stakeholder partnerships between the public and private sectors and civil society organisations made a difference, and where they could be scaled up to be more effective in future.

These guidelines provide practical guidance and effective tools for humanitarians and communities affected by armed conflict, natural disasters and other humanitarian emergencies to coordinate, plan, implement, monitor and evaluate essential actions for

This study looks at whether interventions to improve building practices, combined with community engagement, have resulted in safer schools and communities in view of the effects of the earthquake on Nepal’s educational infrastructure.

This paper is part of a series highlighting the World Bank's achievements in disaster risk management initiatives. It presents the analytical support provided by the World Bank in close collaboration with the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) on the basis of the Government-led Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) following the devastating 2009 typhoons, to formulate a disaster risk financing strategy to reduce the fiscal burden arising from the recurring costs of disasters in the Philippines.