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Comprehensive School Safety Framework

Global Status of School Safety

Targets and Indicators

Operational Guidance

CSS Assessment Tools

CSS Policy Survey

The CSSF, developed through global collaboration, promotes resilience, risk reduction, and equitable access to quality education in alignment with child rights and protection frameworks.

Discover the key findings and results from the 2024 Comprehensive School Safety Policy Survey.

The CSSF targets and indicators guide policy and programme development, and stimulate monitoring and evaluation of progress in school safety.

School Safety guidance materials, templates, case studies, and learning resources.

Best Practices

Case Studies

Templates

Research into Action Briefs

Technical and non-technical methods and digital toolsets for evidence-based monitoring, planning and decision-making for school safety.

Technical Assessment

Non-Technical Assessment Tools

The CSS Policy Survey records the adoption, implementation, and progress of CSS policies by country and sub-nationally. Aggregated summary reports show regional and global progress.

Policy Survey 2017

Policy Survey 2024
About Us
What is GADRRRES?

Who We Are

How We Work

Join GADRRRES

GADRRRES is a global alliance which advocates for child rights and resilience in the education sector, guided by the Comprehensive School Safety Framework.

GADRRRES is comprised of members, partners, and regional affiliates. Members and partners include UN agencies, international humanitarian and development NGOs, international networks, donors, and private sector organisations.

Asia Pacific Coalition for School Safety (APCSS)

Grupo Regional de Educación para Latinoamérica y el Caribe (GRE-LAC)

West and Central Africa Education in Emergencies Working Group (WCA EiEWG)

As a global alliance, GADRRRES members, partners, and regional affiliates take an active role in leadership and delivery of its objectives, supported by a small international secretariat.

GADRRRES and Regional Affiliate memberships are open to eligible organisations: find out more about eligibility and the benefits of joining.
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Endorse the CSSF

CSS Champion Countries

Comprehensive School Safety in Action

Voices from the Ground

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GADRRRES Newsletter

Governments and their partners are invited to endorse the Framework to improve resilience in education systems and promote safe, equitable and continuous access to a quality education for all.

Current endorsements Discover which countries have endorsed the Comprehensive School Safety Framework.

For Governments Find out how governments can endorse the CSSF.

For Organisations Find out how organisations can endorse the CSSF.

Find out how to become a Comprehensive School Safety Champion Country, or click on a Champion Country profile below:

Champion Country: Peru Discover how Peru is championing the Comprehensive School Safety Framework.

Champion Country: Costa Rica Discover how Costa Rica is championing the Comprehensive School Safety Framework.

Watch how governments, organisations, and schools are taking action on comprehensive school safety.

Hear from young people about the impact of comprehensive school safety

Find out about upcoming and past events around the world

Read the current and past editions of the GADRRRES newsletter
Resources
Resource Library

Curated Collections

School Safety & Resilience Blog

Multilingual Glossary

Introduction to the CSSF Online Course

Search for resources by topic, resource type, and language.

See our curated collections of important resources available for download.

Best Practices

Case Studies

Research into Action Briefs

Safe Schools Context Analyses

Research Reports: Disaster Impacts on Education

Research Reports: Effective and Scalable Solutions

CSS Operational Guidance

Pillar 1: Safer Learning Facilities

Towards Safer School Construction

Pillar 2: School Safety and Educational Continuity Management

Templates

Pillar 3: Risk Reduction and Resilience Education

Public Awareness and Public Education (PAPE) for Disaster Risk Reduction: Key Messages

Read articles by GADRRRES members about school safety and resilience in action

Learn about GADRRRES' approach to language equity and inclusion, and see our term database in 15 languages.

A self-paced online course for education stakeholders in a variety of contexts around the world (on IFRC Learning Platform).

Education at COP30: What the Outcomes Mean for Safe and Resilient Schools

GADRRRES member Mahmuda Akter reports on the outcomes of COP30 Belém.

Article

Youth Voices: World spends billions on disasters, forgets to prevent them

by Rio Ananda Andriana

Rio Ananda Andriana

Oct 15, 2025 ·

Article

What happened for education at the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2025?

GP2025 shone a spotlight on comprehensive school safety.

Children in classroom smiling at desks.

Article

Strengthening Preparedness with the Comprehensive School Safety Framework

Rita Ewing of the Red Cross shares the importance of the CSSF and what it means for global disaster preparedness.

Rita Ewing

Apr 01, 2025 ·

Flooded classroom in a village in Peruvian Amazon.

Article

Introducing the 2024 global comprehensive school safety policy survey

Become part of the unfolding story, reporting on global progress towards Comprehensive School Safety!

Save the Children & UNICEF

Aug 02, 2024 · 6 min read

Veha (11) working out a math problem at a blackboard at his floating school on Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia

Article

Six reflections from the Transforming Education Summit stocktake

From climate change to conflict to underfunding (and more), the list of challenges facing education around the world is extensive. It is essential that the global education community responds with an approach that is as comprehensive, as ambitious, and as steadfast as the challenges we face.

Save the Children

Jun 27, 2024 · 6 min read

Article

From 2022 to 2023: time to press the accelerator to protect education from all hazards!

On the positive side, 2022 was a turning point full of hope for children, youth and education: Most education systems were on a path to recovery – and seemed to be learning many lessons – from the COVID-19 pandemic. Children themselves are putting in huge efforts to catching-up on all the learning they’ve missed.

UNESCO & UNICEF

Dec 14, 2022 · 5 min read

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