| Committing to School Safety: Regional Launch of the Comprehensive School Safety Framework 2022-2030 – Latin America and the Caribbean |
19 January 2023 |
Online event |
GADRRRES is organising a regional event to launch the CSSF 2022-2030 in Latin America and the Caribbean |
| Committing to School Safety: Regional Launch of the Comprehensive School Safety Framework 2022-2030 – EASTERN AND SOUTHERN AFRICA |
08 December 2022 |
Hybrid event |
GADRRRES is organising a regional event to launch the CSSF 2022-2030 in Eastern and Southern Africa |
| Protecting Education Systems against the Impacts of Climate Change |
10 November 2022 |
Hybrid event |
In the Framework of C O P 27, GADRRRES organised a side event highlighting the CSSF 2022-2030 as an effective climate adaptation solution to protecting education systems and aiming to encourage further support from global actors to increase its implementation |
| Committing to Comprehensive School Safety and Resilience in the Education Sector: Global launch of the Comprehensive School Safety Framework 2022-2030 |
12 September 2022 |
Online |
GADRRRES undertook a global consultation in 2021 producing the CSSF 2022-2030. The global launch of the revised Framework took place on 12 September — learn more! |
| Seventh Session of the Global Platform for DRR |
23-28 May 2022 |
Bali, Indonesia |
In the framework of the Global Platform for DRR 2022, GADRRRES is releasing a special advocacy statement on education and safe schools, and a set of children- and youth-related events are being organised by partners. Learn more! |
| COVID-19 and Student Well-Being |
14 December 2021
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Online |
In 2021, CONVERGE COVID-19 Working Group on Children, Youth, and Schools led by GADRRRES benefited from the support from American University School of International Service graduate students, to develop an annotated bibliography, literature review, and a research-into-action brief summarizing existing research on COVID-19 and student well-being. |
| Engaging Children and Youth in Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Building |
23 November 2021
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Online |
This GADRRRES webinar is advocating for the need to take action to involve children and youth in all stages of disaster risk and risk management by listening to young people themselves. |
| Language in Disaster Risk Reduction and Education in Emergencies |
16 September 2021
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Online |
Organised with Translators without Borders/Clear Global, this webinar advocate for a better approach to language in DRR and EiE to help people get vital information, and be heard, whatever language they speak. |
| COVID-19 and School Safety – Comprehensive School Safety Framework Pillar 3: Risk Reduction and Resilience Education |
02 July 2020
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Online |
GADRRRES hosted a series of webinars dedicated to COVID-19 and school safety aiming to provide recommendations to practitioners.
The third webinar is focusing on Risk Reduction and Resilience Education (Pillar 3 of the CSSF). |
| COVID-19 and School Safety – Comprehensive School Safety Framework Pillar 2: School Disaster Management |
24 June 2020
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Online |
The GADRRRES group hosted a series of webinars dedicated to COVID-19 and school safety aiming to provide recommendations to practitioners. The second webinar is focusing on School Disaster Management (Pillar 2 of the CSSF). |
| COVID-19 and School Safety – Comprehensive School Safety Framework Pillar 1: Safe Learning Facilities |
11 June 2020
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Online |
The GADRRRES group hosted a series of webinars dedicated to COVID-19 and school safety aiming to provide recommendations to practitioners. The first webinar is focusing on Safe Learning Facilities (Pillar 1 of the CSSF). |
| Launch of the CONVERGE COVID-19 Public Health and Social Science Research Working Group on Children, Youth and Schools |
20 May 2020
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Online |
In May 2020, the GADRRRES group launched the global COVID-19 Public Health and Social Science Research Working Group on Children, Youth, and Schools, as part of a wide range of COVID-19 Working Groups for Public Health and Social Sciences Research |
| VISUS Methodology |
09 March 2020
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Online |
Discover in this webinar the multi-hazard school safety assessment methodology, VISUS (Visual Inspection for defining Safety Upgrading Strategies), which aims to define a decision-making support tool aimed at planning strategies for the multi-hazard risk reduction of learning facilities. |
| School Safety in the Context of Disaster Risk Reduction |
05 December 2019
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Online |
This webinar provides a general overview of school safety and GADRRRES activities. |
| First UNESCO-VISUS Experts’ meeting |
11-13 September 2019
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Udine, Italy |
In 2019, the UNESCO-VISUS Experts met in Udine, Italy, with the aim to review the VISUS methodology. The comments received will help the preparation and finalization of the UNESCO VISUS technical handbook and related documentation addressed to different stakeholders including decision-makers. |
| Global Platform for DRR 2019: GADRRRES Side Event |
15 May 2019
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Geneva, Switzerland |
In the framework of the Global Platform for DRR 2019, GADRRRES is organising the side event: “School safety: a sustainable way to increase the resilience dividend”. |
| Model Safe School Programme – Turks and Caicos Islands |
29 November – 01 December 2017
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Grand Turk Island |
The Model Safe School Programme is designed to assist the Participating States with implementing processes that result in safer and greener educational facilities. A specific training is being organised. |
| Global Platform for DRR 2017: GADRRRES Events |
22 May 2017
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Cancun, Mexico |
In the framework of the Global Platform for DRR 2017, GADRRRES is organising a set of events with the aim to promote the school safety agenda. |
| First Caribbean Safe School Ministerial Forum |
03 – 04 April 2017
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Antigua and Barbuda |
The First Caribbean Safe School Ministerial Forum will be hosted by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology of Antigua and Barbuda with the aim to achieve a set of outputs to advance on the school safety agenda. |
| UNESCO Week for Peace and Sustainable Development: The role of education |
06 – 10 March 2017
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Ottawa, Canada |
The UNESCO Week for Peace and Sustainable Development: The role of education will focus on the issue of teachers and teacher training, and highlight best practices in the fields of Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship Education. |
| Comprehensive School Safety Pillar 1: Safe Learning Facilities non-technical training |
08-10 February 2017
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Bangkok, Thailand |
In February 2017, the first pilot of the non-technical Safe Learning Facilities training was successfully completed in Bangkok, Thailand. |
| Technical workshop on safer school facilities |
19 – 20 March 2015
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Tokyo, Japan |
The World Bank and the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery are organizing a technical workshop on safer school facilities on March 19 and 20, 2015, in Tokyo, Japan. |
| Media and communication for resilience: Showcasing innovation |
16 March 2015
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Sendai, Japan |
Communication initiatives that target people at risk of natural hazards can help people better understand risk and make informed decisions about how to manage it. A selection of outstanding examples of innovation and good practice is available. |
| Launch: Challenge Fund |
16 March 2015
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Sendai, Japan |
The Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery and the UK Department for International Development will launch a Challenge Fund on March 16, 2015, at the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Sendai, Japan. |
| World Conference on DRR 2015 |
14 – 18 March 2015 |
Sendai, Japan |
The Third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction will be held from 14 to 18 March 2015 in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. |
| Workshop: Comprehensive School Safety Targets and Indicators |
18 – 19 February 2015
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Bangkok, Thailand |
A Workshop focusing on the Comprehensive School Safety Targets and Indicators is organised in Bangkok, Thailand from 18 to 19 February 2015. |
| Technical Consultation: Community‐based Safe School Construction |
16 – 17 February 2015
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Bangkok, Thailand |
The Community-based Safe School Construction workshop is part of a project to advance risk reduction in the education sector funded by the Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery and the World Bank implemented by Save the Children. |
| Invitation: Showcasing Innovation – Media and Communication for DRR |
15 February 2015
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Online |
Online |
| World Conference on DRR 2015 Open-Ended Negotiation Meetings |
17 – 18 November 2014
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Geneva, Switzerland |
The Second Session of the Preparatory Committee, 17-18 November 2014, mandated the co-Chairs to convene further open-ended negotiation meetings in Geneva to continue its work on the draft. |
