Sendai Framework
The Sendai framework identified “substantial reduction of disaster damage to critical infrastructure and disruption of basic services, including health and education facilities, through developing resilience” as among its main targets by 2030, which included children and youth as key actors for disaster risk reduction and for building resilience to communities.
The Sendai Framework Priorities for Education:
PRIORITY 1: Understanding disaster risk
- A comprehensive and inclusive approach to school safety in education sector strategies, policies and plans.
- Child-centered risk assessment in place at all levels in the education sector.
- Multi-hazard risk assessment conducted.
- A systematic plan for assessing and prioritizing retrofitting and replacing unsafe schools.
- The National Disaster Management Authority and Education authority has nationally adopted consensus- and evidence-based, action-oriented key messages as a foundation for formal and non-formal education.
- Risk Reduction and Resilience (RRR) Education into regular curriculum.
- Schools convey RRR Education via non-formal education
PRIORITY 2: Strengthening disaster risk governance to manage disaster risk
- Enabling policies and legal frameworks in place at national and/or subnational levels to address the key elements of Comprehensive School Safety.
- Organizational arrangements, leadership, and coordination for RRR Education is established by senior management, and includes designated leaders who are responsible at all levels.
- Guidance and regulations for safe school construction in place.
- Safe school site selection, design and construction monitored for compliance/enforcement by the appropriate authorities
- Schools annually review school Disaster Risk Reduction and management measures.
PRIORITY 3: Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction for resilience
- Funding in place to reduce education sector risks.
- Monitoring and evaluation for Comprehensive School Safety underway.
- Funding, monitoring and evaluation in place for generating hazard-related evidence.
- Prioritization plan for upgrading existing unsafe schools resourced and implemented.
- Routine maintenance and non-structural mitigation for increased safety and protection of investments in public schools.
- Needs assessment, strategy, and an implementation plan to develop staff and student capacity for participation in school-based DRRM at the necessary scale.
- Needs assessment, strategy, and an implementation plan to develop teachers’ capacity for teaching RRR Education.
- The country has enough quality (RRR) Education materials to implement RRR Education at scale.
PRIORITY 4: Enhancing disaster preparedness for effective response
- Planning undertaken for limited use of schools as temporary shelters or collective centers during the school year.
- The education authority has multi-hazard risk assessment based on national and sub-national plans for education sector risk reduction and management. The focus is on safety and security, educational continuity and contingency planning, and protection of education sector investments.
- The education authority has established relevant simulation drills that are held annually at all levels to practice response preparedness and to review and adapt response plans as needed.
CONTEXTUALIZATION is key for the operationalization of the Sendai Framework and LOCALIZATION is key for the Sendai Framework to be a “binding” agreement.
