
Working Group 1: Safer Learning Facilities
Purpose
Leverage the global experience of GADRRRES network partners to increase awareness and understanding and develop and promote approaches, tools, best practices and lessons learned, in order to enhance guidance, capacity building, and system strengthening for improved safety and quality of school physical infrastructure at scale.


Working Group 1: Safer Learning Facilities

Purpose
Leverage the global experience of GADRRRES network partners to increase awareness and understanding and develop and promote approaches, tools, best practices and lessons learned, in order to enhance guidance, capacity building, and system strengthening for improved safety and quality of school physical infrastructure at scale.

Working Group 1: Safer Learning Facilities

Purpose
Leverage the global experience of GADRRRES network partners to increase awareness and understanding and develop and promote approaches, tools, best practices and lessons learned, in order to enhance guidance, capacity building, and system strengthening for improved safety and quality of school physical infrastructure at scale.

Priorities
- Develop Operational Guidance Tools
- Support External Webinar Series
- Support Development and Promotion of Both Technical and Non-technical Assessment and Guidance Tools for Safer School Facilities

Priorities
- Develop Operational Guidance Tools
- Support External Webinar Series
- Support Development and Promotion of Both Technical and Non-technical Assessment and Guidance Tools for Safer School Facilities
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
Towards Safer School Construction: A community-based approach
UNESCO Guidelines for Assessing Learning Facilities in the Context of Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation:
- Volume 1: Introduction to learning facilities assessment and to the VISUS methodology
- Volume 2: VISUS methodology
- Volume 3: VISUS implementation
World Bank’s Global Library of School Infrastructure
World Bank’s Roadmap for Safer and Resilient Schools (guidance note)
Current Workplan Priorities
01
Develop Operational Guidance on Safer School Facilities, to support CSSF
02
Hold external webinar series on the digital school safety assessment tools
03
Support update of CSS Targets and Indicators, and CSS Assessment Suite tools to include policies related to green school buildings
04
Create regulatory environment database
05
Maintain and develop Towards Safer School Construction resources / webpages and share additional Pillar 1 non-technical guidance materials









