5th International Disaster and Risk Conference IDRC 2014 Integrative Risk Management - The role of science, technology & practice 24-28 August 2014 in Davos, Switzerland
A Holistic Approach Towards International Disaster Resilient Architecture by ...
4. Anton Joehr DM Pillar - RCRC
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Initiatives for Comprehensive Safe Schools
Pillar 2: School Disaster Management
Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Anton Joehr, Swiss Red Cress
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Red Cross / Red Crescent
Presence in 189 countries
Auxiliary role to the
government
Presence throughout the
country
Community-based
organisation
Fundamental Principles
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Guiding conceptual frameworks
External:Internal:
A framework for community
safety and resilience
In the face of disaster risk
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Approach to School Disaster Management
National public campaigns
Partnerships with education authorities
Developing educational materials
for schools
Mobilising youth and junior RCRC
for peer education
Training and organising communities
through CBDRR
Using their disaster response operations
as opportunity for improved risk awareness
RCRC National Societies
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Pillar 2: School
Disaster Management
Assessment & Planning
Physical & Environmental Protection
Response Skills & Provisions
Representative / participatory SDM
Committee
Educational continuity plan
Standard operating procedures
Contingency planning
Building
maintenance
Non-structural
mitigation
Fire safety
Household
disaster plan
Family reunifi-
cation plan
School drills
Comprehensive School Safety Framework
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• National and sub-national education authorities and
local school communities (including children and
parents)
• Collaboration with their disaster management
counterparts at each level
• to maintain safe learning environments and plan for
educational continuity
School Disaster Management
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• Committee / focal point
• Policies and guidance
• Training, monitoring
evaluation
• SoP
• Early warning, early action
School Disaster Management (2)
Key Responsibilites
• Contingency plans
• Alternative locations
• Care for specific needs
• Link education sector and
DM sector
• Response preparedness
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1. KNOWING OUR DANGERS
2. REDUCING OUR DANGERS
3. PREPARING TO RESPOND
4. PLANNING FOR EDU-
CATIONAL CONTINUITY
5. MONITORING, REACHING
OUT, ADVOCATING
Example on the regional level:
Asia Coalition for School Safety (ACSS)
Aim
Sharing of good practices,
lesson learnt etc.
to minimize disaster impact
children’s education
to coordinate and promote
advocacy for Comprehen-
sive School Safety.
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Rationale
• Sensitize children / youth
• Sensitize parents
• Safe schools
Example on the local level:
School activities of the RC in Honduras
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Main activities
Infrastructure
• School rehabilitation
• School committees
Capacity building
• Teacher’s training
• Training of school committees
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Main activities
Awareness Raising
• Hazard risks, vulnerabilities
and capacities
• Climate change
• Risk games (riesgolandia)
S2020: 1.Save lives, protect livelihoods, and strengthen recovery from disasters and crises. 2. Enable healthy and safe living 3. Promote social inclusion and a culture of non-violence and peace.
Hyogo framework for action Priority 3 - Education, information and public awareness
The Three Pillars of Comprehensive School Safety
Comprehensive school safety is addressed by education policy and practices aligned with disaster management at national, regional, district, and local school site levels.
It rests on three pillars:
1. Safe Learning Facilities
2. School Disaster Management
3. Risk Reduction and Resilience Education
Multi-hazard risk assessment is the foundation for planning for Comprehensive School Safety. Ideally, this should be part of Educational Management Information Systems at national, subnational, and local levels. It is part of a broader analysis of education sector policy and management in order to provide the evidence base for planning and action.
Schools are at the meso level of society – but they respond to government policy and leadership, and they involve individuals and families. This is why a young Turkish student gave the slogan to the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction campaign “Disaster Reduction begins at School”
School disaster management has an area of activity all it own, as well as overlapping with structural safety and disaster risk reduction. The actions of disaster management are similar for many organizations.
Establish national and/or sub-national level committee and fulltime focal point(s) leading comprehensive school safety efforts.
• Provide policies, guidance at sub-national and school-site levels for ongoing site-based assessment and planning, risk reduction, and response preparedness as part of normal school management and improvement.
• Develop, train, institutionalize, monitor and evaluate school committees. These should be empowered to lead identification and mapping of all hazards inside and outside school and community and action-planning for ongoing risk reduction and preparedness activities. Encourage participation of staff, students, parents and community stakeholders in this work.
• Adapt standard operating procedures as needed, for hazards with and without warnings, including: drop cover and hold, building evacuation, evacuation to safe haven, shelter-in-place and lockdown, and safe family reunification.
• Engage schools in making early warning and early action systems meaningful and effective.
• Establish national and sub-national contingency plans, based on the Interagency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Minimum Standards (2010), to support educational continuity, including plans and criteria to limit the temporary use of schools as temporary shelters.
• Identify alternate locations for temporary learning spaces and alternate modes of instruction
• Incorporate the needs of pre-school and out-of-school children, children with disabilities, and both girls and boys.
• Link education sector and disaster management sector, and public safety policies and plans at each level of social organization (national, sub-national levels, and local and school site level) and establish communication and coordination linkages
across sectors.
• Practice, critically evaluate, and improve on response preparedness, with regular school-wide and community-linked simulation drills. Adapt standard operating procedures to specific context of each school.
Establish national and/or sub-national level committee and fulltime focal point(s) leading comprehensive school safety efforts.
• Provide policies, guidance at sub-national and school-site levels for ongoing site-based assessment and planning, risk reduction, and response preparedness as part of normal school management and improvement.
• Develop, train, institutionalize, monitor and evaluate school committees. These should be empowered to lead identification and mapping of all hazards inside and outside school and community and action-planning for ongoing risk reduction and preparedness activities. Encourage participation of staff, students, parents and community stakeholders in this work.
• Adapt standard operating procedures as needed, for hazards with and without warnings, including: drop cover and hold, building evacuation, evacuation to safe haven, shelter-in-place and lockdown, and safe family reunification.
• Engage schools in making early warning and early action systems meaningful and effective.
• Establish national and sub-national contingency plans, based on the Interagency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Minimum Standards (2010), to support educational continuity, including plans and criteria to limit the temporary use of schools as temporary shelters.
• Identify alternate locations for temporary learning spaces and alternate modes of instruction
• Incorporate the needs of pre-school and out-of-school children, children with disabilities, and both girls and boys.
• Link education sector and disaster management sector, and public safety policies and plans at each level of social organization (national, sub-national levels, and local and school site level) and establish communication and coordination linkages
across sectors.
• Practice, critically evaluate, and improve on response preparedness, with regular school-wide and community-linked simulation drills. Adapt standard operating procedures to specific context of each school.
The approach which is being working on building together in Asia with IFRC and Asian Coalition for School Safety to change from “plans” to “participatory planning” which is designed in the overlap between Pillars 2 and 3 so that it includes informal education approaches to children experiencing RR education by doing it in the school environment.
The annual themes for SDM participatory planning are:
Theme 1: Knowing Our Dangers - builds upon VCA (special tools for schools) and PAPE Key messages (you see in theme 1)
Theme 2: Reducing Our Dangers - fill in with any examples… so many strong examples from IFRC!
Theme 3: Preparing to Respond (I have put some extra slides here on SoPs and organization functional division of labor, as usually this is a weak area)
Theme 4: Educational Continuity Planning - again this tends to be ignored… this is the Education in Emergencies prevention part… important not to skip (also includes Limited Use of Schools as Temporary Shelters)
Theme 5: Monitor, Share, Advocate…