Updated on February 21, 2024

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Created on October 30, 2019

Towards Safer School Construction: A Community-Based Approach

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This publication synthesizes the lessons from past community-based school construction programs and projects around the globe.

Product Description

Towards Safer School Construction – A Community-Based Approach provides guidance for school construction projects that have one or more of the following characteristics:

  • Local school committees or community leaders contributing to the funding, planning, construction or oversight of school buildings in hazard-prone areas.
  • Construction that may enhance existing or planned disaster risk reduction education.
  • A local construction sector that does not already include robust hazard-resistant design, construction and oversight practice.
  • Combined post-disaster reconstruction and disaster risk reduction.

 

While the focus of the manual is on schools built through community-based processes, the guidelines may also enhance more traditional school construction processes, such as when government agencies directly build schools or hire contractors to do so.

The manual is intended primarily for use by humanitarian and development actors.

Target SDGs

SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

SDG 4: Quality Education

Target Users (Target Impact Group)

Public Sector Agencies, NGOs

Distributors / Implementing Organizations

Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) Save the Children UNESCO Arup Risk RED

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