CSS Policy Survey 2024
CSS Policy Survey 2024
The results of the 2024 Comprehensive School Safety Policy Survey are here!
Click below to discover the national, regional, and global findings.
About the 2024 Comprehensive School Safety Policy Survey
In 2024, the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector (GADRRRES) conducted a global policy survey to assess the status of comprehensive school safety around the world. Built on the three pillars and enabling foundation of the Comprehensive School Safety Framework, the policy survey was a collaborative, multi-stakeholder process that engaged ministries of education, national disaster management agencies, UN agencies, national, community and international NGOs, and more.
The process
The 2024 Comprehensive School Safety Policy Survey built upon a baseline survey conducted in 2017, itself an outgrowth of sustained advocacy around school safety from a wide range of stakeholders over more than two decades. Since the 2017 policy survey, GADRRRES completed a consultative process and updated the Comprehensive School Safety Framework. GADRRRES also developed a set of Comprehensive School Safety targets and indicators to provide increased clarity, specificity and guidance to governments seeking to improve school safety. Both the revised Comprehensive School Safety Framework and the Targets and Indicators were released in June 2022.
Starting in August 2023, survey questions were drafted to measure each indicator. These questions were refined and input sought from GADRRRES member organisations, regional affiliates, and experts. In June 2024, all
questions were reviewed with the goal of minimising the number of questions asked, while still covering all 21 indicators. The survey was open until 14 February 2025.
Survey implementation relied upon a set of designated roles and responsibilities. Due to the length and level of detail of the survey itself, the collection of data that some stakeholders viewed as sensitive, and the potential for the survey
results to create unwanted transparency about the policies and procedures of education authorities, the Comprehensive School Safety Policy Survey team articulated three main survey implementation roles:
- Survey Administrator to coordinate global implementation and provide capacity support, as needed, to
National Survey Facilitators. - National Survey Facilitator (NSF) to facilitate the coordination among different actors for the survey
completion in a specific location (country, territory, or federated unit). - Survey Validator affiliated with the education authority to validate the survey response as accurate and give
permission for public release of Comprehensive School Safety Policy Profile for a specific location
More details on the process and implementation of the CSS Policy Survey can be found in the Global Status of School Safety: Technical Report of the 2024 Comprehensive School Safety Policy Survey.
Participating governments
The survey was open to United Nations member nations and sub-national units of federated countries, such as states
and provinces. In addition, two small-island territories with substantial comprehensive school safety activities also requested to be allowed to submit a survey response.
In total, 46 countries, two island territories, and 21 sub-national units participated in the 2024 CSS Policy Survey, representing over 330 million school-age children.
The results
All publicly available survey responses, as well as regional and global analysis, are available on the Global Status of School Safety page.
2024 CSS policy survey questions
Discover the full set of questions used in the policy survey, available in 14 languages:
The 2024 CSS Policy Survey is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Prudence Foundation.
