Goals of Comprehensive School Safety

• To protect learners and education workers from death, injury, and harm in schools
• To plan for educational continuity in the face of all expected hazards and threats
• To safeguard education sector investments
• To strengthen risk reduction and resilience through education

Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSSF)

The Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSSF) provides a comprehensive approach to reducing risks from all hazards to the education sector by addressing three pillars of school safety:

• Safe Learning Facilities
• School Disaster Management
• Risk Reduction and Resilience Education

The CSSF aims to provide a unified focus for child-centered and evidence-based efforts to promote Disaster Risk Reduction throughout the education sector and to assure universal access to quality education.

The document includes an introduction to the framework and its components. Detailed descriptions of each pillar are also provided, including key actors and key responsibilities necessary to implement CSS.

Purpose

This framework provides a comprehensive approach to reducing risks from all hazards to the education sector. The past decade has brought children’s advocates together:

• To improve all children's equitable and safe access to a quality, inclusive and integrated basic education
• To monitor and evaluate progress of initiatives for reducing disaster and conflict risks
• To increase availability of and access to hazard-related evidence, such as multi-hazard early warning systems’ data and disaster risk information
• To promote risk reduction and resilience in the education sector, including clear focus in major international agreements (eg. Sustainable Development Goals and Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030)
• To strengthen coordination and networks for resilience from all levels- local to international
• To strengthen education governance and local participation
• To strengthen conflict risk reduction in order to implement integrated, inclusive measures to prevent and reduce hazard exposure and vulnerability to disaster, increase preparedness for response and recovery, and strengthen resilience

The CSS framework is intended to advance the goals of the Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools, the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector, and to promote school safety as a priority area of post-2015 frameworks for sustainable development, risk reduction and resilience.

Resource: GADRRRES