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COVID-19 and School Safety - Comprehensive School Safety Framework Pillar 3: Risk Reduction and Resilience Education
02 July 2020
Online
COVID-19 and School Safety - Comprehensive School Safety Framework Pillar 3: Risk Reduction and Resilience Education
Location: Online Start Date: 02 July 2020 End Date: 02 July 2020
Speakers:Marla Petal, Bonnie Haskell, Anva Ratzon, Carolina Andrade and Dana Yaari Organiser: GADRRRES
Attendance: 148 participants
Webinar recording available on the GADRRRES YouTube channel:
Learning and Insights
● Public Awareness and Public Education (PAPE) for DRR: The Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector recommends PAPE Action-Oriented Key Messages as a foundation for Pillar 3: Risk Reduction and Resilience Education – and the starting point for development of formal and informal curriculum content. PAPE consist of:
○ Key messages for all-hazards family and household disaster prevention
○ Hazard specific key messages
○ Child protection in emergencies
○ Standard operating procedures for disasters and emergencies in schools
● PAPE: KM – The adaptation and adoption process:
○ Step 1: Meet with the national disaster management organisations to make a preliminary plan
○ Step 2: Prepare the key messages for review
○ Step 3: Plan the two-day national workshop agenda and send out invitations to review packets to subject matter experts
○ Step 4: Prepare for the workshop(s)
○ Step 5: Conduct the workshop(s)
○ Step 6: Compile and edit inputs and circulate draft for final review
○ Step 7: Finalise, publish and disseminate the key messages
● Kids Activity Kit: COVID-19 with activity cards structured around (1) COVID-19 messages, (2) Child-friendly formats and (3) accessible through different means addressing current challenges for children and engaging with them on COVID-19.
● The importance of including caregivers in building child resilience is particularly important to assist children in their health and well-being, as well as to cope with stress. Several important parts are outlined in the toolkit developed by IsraAID to cope with the current COVID-19 crisis and how this influences the caregiver-child relationship and well-being.
● Case study 1: COVID-19 Response in Mozambique with distribution of PSS kits and hygiene kits roll-out still continuing successfully to respond to COVID-19 in different parts of the country.
● Case study 2: COVID-19 Response in Commonwealth of Dominica had a targeted direct community approach with virtual recreation rooms and government and general public approach with information dissemination based.
Resources and further reading:
Public awareness and public education key messages Collection
COVID-19 Toolkit for Parents by IsraAID
Additional IsraAID response to COVID-19 related resources