2nd Pillar: School Disaster Management
School Disaster Management is established by national and sub-national educational authorities, including local school communities along with the children and parents. Together they collaborate with their disaster management counterparts at each jurisdiction to maintain safe learning environments. They assess and reduce structural, non-structural, infrastructural, environmental, and social risks to plan for educational continuity.
The key responsibilities for each key actor are to:
- Provide policies and guidance for normal school management and improvement at sub-national and school-site levels for ongoing site-based assessment and planning, risk reduction, and response preparedness.
- Develop, train, monitor, and evaluate education authorities and school-site committees to identify and map hazards inside and outside the school vicinity, including the creation of action-planning for ongoing disaster risk reduction and preparedness activities.
- Adapt standard operating procedures for hazards, including basic earthquake procedures, building evacuation, and safe family reunification.
- Engage schools and communities to create effective early warning and early action systems.
- Establish national and sub-national contingency plans, based on Interagency Network for Education in Emergencies (INEE) Minimum Standards (2010).
- Identify alternate locations for temporary schools.
- Develop plans and procedures that incorporate the needs of preschool children, children with disabilities, and children out-of-school.
- Link education sector and disaster management sector policies and plans at each level of social organization and establish communication across sectors.
- Evaluate and improve on response preparedness with regular school-wide and community-linked hazard-simulation drills.
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