Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) is addressed by education policies and plans aligned with disaster management at national, regional, district, and local school site levels.

The resources included in the tables below provide guidance on building this enabling institutional environment.

Policy Guidance

Core Documents

Comprehensive School Safety Framework CSS Targets and Indicators
Language Resource Type Title Publisher Year
EN Research Report Comprehensive School Safety Framework GADRRRES 2017
EN, ZH Research Report and Summary CSS Policy Trends in the Asia-Pacific Region–Research Report GADRRRES 2017
EN Case Studies Report and Summary CSS Policy Trends: Case Studies GADRRRES 2017
EN Research Report ASEAN Common Framework for Comprehensive School Safety ASSI 2016
EN Online Training Comprehensive School Safety: Online Lesson Save the Children 2016
EN Research Report Safe Schools Context Analysis Save the Children, UNICEF 2014
EN Online Training Children and Climate Change E-Learning Course UN CC: Learn, UNICEF
EN Peer-Reviewed Journal Article Comprehensive school safety policy: A global baseline survey International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 2020

Practitioner Guidance

Language Resource Type Title Publisher Year
EN Online Training Training Programme on Comprehensive School Safety and Education Sector Policies and Plans UNESCO, UNESCO-IIEP
EN Research Report Guidance Notes for Educational Planners: Integrating Conflict and Disaster Risk Reduction into Education Sector Planning UNESCO-IIEP, UNICEF 2011
EN Online Training Safety, Resilience, and Social Cohesion: A Guide for Education Sector Planners and Online Course UNESCO-IIEP, IBE, PEIC 2015, 2017
EN Bibliographic Database Child-centred risk reduction and Comprehensive School Safety Bibliographic Database Save the Children 2018
EN Tool Scalability assessment and planning (SAP) toolkit Save the Children 2018
EN Case Study Peace Building and Resilience Case Studies UNESCO-IIEP, UNICEF 2014, 2015, 2016
EN Research Report Scalable approaches, methods, and tools for child-centred risk reduction and resilience Save the Children 2018
EN Research into Action Brief and Summary Developing and implementing comprehensive school safety policy GADRRRES 2018
EN Research into Action Brief and Summary Gender and disasters – Considering children GADRRRES 2018
EN Research into Action Brief and Summary Including children in disaster risk reduction GADRRRES 2018