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Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction

Natural Disasters Impact on Education

Cyclone Nargis hit the coast of Myanmar in May 2008. 4,106 schools were damaged,

with 1,244 totally collapsed.

What are the Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction?

Framework of guiding principles and general steps to help communities build

disaster resilient schools (or retrofit existing schools)

Main components of Guidance Notes

on Safer School Construction• A set of suggested steps to consider when planning and implementing the construction, retrofitting and/or repair of safer schools

• Key design and construction principles to consider when building, retrofitting or repairing school structures for greater resilience to natural disasters

• Links to resources including designs, manuals, academic studies, case studies and other materials based on the experience and research of practitioners and technical experts around the globe

Policymakers and planners of local, regional and national government bodies

Engineers, architects, planners and construction managers

United Nations agencies

Disaster management organizations

NGOs and community-based organizations

Bi- and multilateral donor agencies

Academic institutions and educators

Education sector groups and/or clusters

Who should use Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction?

Why the Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction are important:

• Preventable deaths

• The Education for All and Millennium Development Goals cannot be achieved without the construction of safer and more disaster resilient education facilities.

Using the Guidance Notes where you work

What are the primary challenges related to issues of Disaster Risk Reduction and Safer School Construction in this region?

Use of the Guidance Notes on Safer School Construction

How have you used the Guidance Notes in your work and/or how do you anticipate your organisation could implement and institutionalise the Guidance Notes in the future?

are the main challenges for Safer School Construction in

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