Overview:
Asia-Pacific Coalition for School Safety (APCSS) calls for the engagement of more partners to join ASEAN Safe School Initiative (ASSI) in South-East Asia to accelerate and upscale the initiative and make it as effective as possible. It hopes that coordination at national and regional levels will be enhanced and collaborative efforts of interested stakeholders in Asia-Pacific region will increase the number of countries that adopt and implement approaches consistent with Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSSF). APCSS calls on governments to sign up as a Safe School Leader as part of Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools (WISS) for a stronger and more resilient Asia-Pacific.
The School Disaster Risk Management (SDRM) Guidelines aim to support school-based risk assessment and planning, educational continuity planning, and development of response skills (such as standard operating procedures, incident command systems in case of hazards) and response provisions (such as temporary and locally built learning facilities) –all of which form the School Disaster Risk Management Plan.
The SDRM Guidelines aim to reduce the impact of disasters on the school’s environment, physical construction, as well as to avoid possible impacts on the students’ learning outcomes. To achieve this, the Guidelines attempt to harmonize existing school safety template documents with existing global and regional approaches to come up with a common set of standards that can be adopted and adapted in Southeast Asian countries.
Overview:
The first section presents the common principles and standards in school disaster risk management discussed in a step-by-step manner, including a discussion on the roles and responsibilities of the SDRM Committee and SDRM Focal Point, the purpose is to develop a SDRM Plan that will guide the school in achieving comprehensive school safety.
The second and third section discusses about the relevant tools and activities to develop the SDRM Plan.
The fourth section contains country profiles that briefly describe the strengths and challenges of each Southeast Asian country. A number of case stories are also provided to illustrate simple, practical, and easy-to-replicate good practices of school-based disaster risk management.
The compilation of case studies showcases the good practices in 6 ASEAN countries in school safety, conducted within ASEAN Safe Schools Initiative (ASSI) programme.
Overview:
This compilation covers 6 country case studies:
Three case studies on Cambodia, Indonesia and Lao PDR showcase ASSI’s good practices and key learnings.
Three case studies on Myanmar, Philippines and Thailand showcase good practices, key learnings and enabling environment from various school safety initiatives in the countries including ASSI in Myanmar and Thailand.
The rollout manual primarily aims to assist country focal agencies on school safety (e.g. Ministry of Education and National Disaster Management Office) in translating the conceptual framework into implementable actions through detailed steps to generate the outputs, key actors, and timelines, as well as elaboration on working mechanisms at national and regional level for school safety.
The manual shall be used as a reference for education authorities, government agencies, local authorities with mandates relevant to education and DRR, and who are tasked with planning, implementing, and monitoring school safety-related activities.
The manual also aims to bring all concerned agencies and stakeholders to a uniform understanding of the framework operationalisation, which highlights inter-linked processes within the 15-year timeframe, coinciding with the completion of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SFDRR).
With this overall sketch for operationalisation, concerned agencies, potential partners and stakeholders at national, regional and global level shall be in a better position to determine their roles in supporting, facilitating, or coordinating with various activities during operationalisation.
Overview:
The operationalisation of the ASEAN Common Framework for Comprehensive School Safety entails 4 key activities done in a cyclical process:
Activity 1 – Assessing current status, gaps and needs
Activity 2 – Setting country priorities and targets
Activity 3 – Developing Country Action Plan on school safety
Activity 4 – Developing and undertaking progress monitoring and impact evaluation (the results of which will be fed into Activity 1 of the next operationalisation phase/period)
The ASEAN Common Framework for Comprehensive School Safety is extracted from the global Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) Framework, and it contains details to guide education ministries and National Disaster Management Offices (NDMOs) towards more intensified action on school safety.
Contextualised for ASEAN members to operationalise the global framework, this framework addresses the need for the development of a mechanism to effectively operationalise the CSS framework at the regional, national, and sub-national levels.
Overview:
The framework aims to achieve the same targets as with the Comprehensive School Safety Framework. To ensure certain uniformity of progress monitoring indicators for school safety, a set of monitoring indicators has been developed, which could serve as minimum standard for countries implementing the Framework, comprising:
6 output indicators to track the impact on school safety at the national using quantifiable data collected at school level
14 input indicators to track school safety interventions and impacts at school level.
In addition to discussing about the school safety in the ASEAN region, the document also discusses about framework, its key elements and the mechanisms of cooperation on the framework at national and regional levels.
The 9-page powerpoint presentation gives an overview of the Red Cross Red Crescent engagement in school safety in Southeast Asia, including the challenges in school safety or school-based disaster risk reduction programming so far. The presentation also highlights the contribution of the Red Cross Red Crescent societies in school safety beyond 2015.
Usage: Raising awareness
Audience: National Society staff and other school safety practitioners