1. Some Key Partnerships for DRR/Ed (Development and Humanitarian Response)
Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector
(members include UNICEF, UNESCO, UNISDR, Plan, World Vision, Save the Children, INEE, GFDRR, etc…)
Global Education Cluster
Children in a Changing Climate Coalition
Asian Coalition for School Safety
The Comprehensive School Safety Framework and Education in Emergencies
The Comprehensive School Safety framework (CSS) framework was articulated during the course of the EiE CBP, takes a holistic approach to disaster risk reduction in the education sector, rooted in child-centered, all-hazards and all-risks assessment, and sound education sector analysis. It identifies three main pillars for intervention: 1.Safe school facilities and access to them, 2. School disaster management and 3. Risk reduction and resilience education. The framework has been widely endorsed and is being used to understand the strategic and practical tasks of protecting children in school and ensuring educational continuity.
Where a robust education sector is in place, all of the practices and needs for education in emergencies are to be found embedded and practiced within the School Disaster Management pillar.
While tools for EiE in humanitarian response have been in development for almost 10 years, the tools for school disaster management are in early stages of design. Save the Children is drawing on experiences from both developed as well as developing country contexts. These tools are being designed to support school-based risk assessment and planning, educational continuity planning, reduction of structural, nonstructural, infrastructural and environmental risks, and development of response skills (including standard operating procedures, incident command systems adapted for schools) and response provisions (including locally built temporary learning facilities).
Purpose
The past decade has brought children’s advocates together:
• To promote disaster risk reduction throughout the education sector along with education for sustainable development and
• To assure universal access to quality education.
At the core of these child-centered, and evidence-based efforts are the recognition of children’s rights to survival and protection as well as to education and participation.
The purpose of this framework for Comprehensive School Safety is to bring these efforts into a clear and unified focus in order for education sector partners to work more effectively, as well as to link with similar efforts in all other sectors Hyogo Framework for Action
International Decade for Education for Sustainable Development
Millenium Development Goals, Education for All, Global Partnership for Education, Education First
A global framework in support of the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector and the World Initiative for Safe Schools

2. Worldwide Initiative for School Safety
Landscape of Frameworks,
Initiatives & Agreements
The delivery of the Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools over will contribute to the achievement of the outcome and goal of
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction and the global target (f) to “substantially reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services, among them health and educational facilities, including through developing their resilience by 2030”.
The Sustainable Development Goals on Education (SDG4) and Innovation and Infrastructure (SDG9).
Worldwide Initiative for School Safety

3. What is Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools (WISS)?
Government-led global partnership that aims at securing political commitments
Supports governments to develop national strategies and implement school safety policies, plans and programs
Based on three pillars of Comprehensive School Safety Framework

4. Important milestones for school safety
2009 and 2011 Global Platforms for Disaster Risk Reduction called Governments to assess all schools in disaster-prone countries by 2011 and to develop a national plan for school safety by 2015.
May 2013: High-Level Dialogue Communiqué of the Fourth Session of the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction urged to “start of a global safe schools and safe health structures campaign in disaster-prone areas with voluntary funding and commitments” to be announced at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015.
2014: Development of a Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools, constitution of a group of Safe School Leader countries.
October 2014: First Meeting of Safe School Leaders hosted by the Government of Turkey (30-31 October 2014, Istanbul) - adopted the ‘Istanbul Roadmap’ to guide national safe school implementation.

5. Important milestones for school safety
Major commitments to support the Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools announced by Governments and partners at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (14-18 March 2015, Sendai, Japan).
The Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction , adopted at the Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction, recognizes the importance of school safety through global target (f) to “substantially reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services, among them health and educational facilities, including through developing their resilience by 2030”.
The World Education Forum (20-21 May 2015, Korea) recognizes the need to ensure safe learning environments.
Second Meeting of Safe School Leaders hosted by the I.R. Iran (4-5 October 2015, Tehran)

6. Safe School Leaders (as at November 2015)
1. Algeria Italy Philippines
2. Armenia I.R. Iran Qatar
3. Brazil Japan South Africa
4. Cambodia 16. Kazakhstan St Vincent and the Grenadines
5. China Kyrgyzstan Thailand
6. Costa Rica 18. Lao PDR Tunisia
7. Croatia Lebanon 31. Turkey
8. Ecuador 20. Madagascar Turkmenistan
9. Finland México USA
10. Georgia 22. Nepal
11. Honduras 23. Nigeria
12. Indonesia 24. Panama
How to become a Safe School Leader ?
Please send a formal communication to UNISDR confirming commitment to the Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools objectives and expressing interest to become a Safe School Leader.
Address your letter / mail to:
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR)
Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools
9-11 rue de Varembé
CH-1201 Geneva
Safe Schools Leaders are expected to:
Mobilize Ministries of Education and their planning departments to integrate a comprehensive approach to school safety as part of education sector plans and national disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020 in close coordination with disaster risk reduction national focal points and key in-country partners involved and active in school safety implementation.
Commit actions and allocate appropriate budget and resources for school safety implementation at the domestic level (national and local) and / or international / regional level (technical support to other countries).
Assess the status of school safety implementation at country level and foster the mobilization of students and youth, teachers and parents in building the social demand for school safety assessment, planning, risk reduction, response-preparedness and educational continuity planning.
Share experiences and good practices in school safety implementation at country level (including at the local level) and with other countries for possible replication.
Participate in Safe Schools Leaders Meetings and related working groups discussions to build a strong knowledge base on all aspects of schools safety and to report on progress in advancing the Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools at the national and local levels
Report back on actions taken on school safety in support of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction implementation through the “Sendai On-line Monitor”.

7. Becoming a Safe Schools Leader – What does it entail
Becoming a Safe Schools Leader – What does it entail? When committing to the Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools, Safe Schools Leaders are expected to:
Mobilize Ministries of Education and their planning departments to integrate a comprehensive approach to school safety as part of education sector plans and national disaster risk reduction strategies by 2020.
Commit actions, allocate appropriate budget and mobilize resources for safe schools implementation at the domestic level or technical cooperation support at international and regional levels.
Assess the status of school safety implementation at country level and foster the mobilization of students and youth, teachers and parents in building the social demand for school safety assessment, planning, risk reduction, response-preparedness and educational continuity planning.

8. Becoming a Safe Schools Leader – (Con’t)
Share experiences and good practices in school safety implementation at country level (including at the local level) and with other countries for possible replication.
Participate in Safe Schools Leaders Meetings and related working groups discussions to build a strong knowledge base on all aspects of schools safety and to report on progress in advancing the Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools at the national and local levels.
Report back on actions taken on school safety in support of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction implementation through the Sendai On-line Monitor.

10. GADRRRES Website