Best Practices of

Safe School Initiative in Cambodia

BKK, Thailand

13-14 Nov 13

Outlines of Presentation• Safe school initiative in Cambodia: 3 pillars and 18

actions• Best practices of pillar 1, 2 & 3• Challenges• Lessons learnt• Way forward

Pillar ISafe School Facilities

Pillar IISchool Disaster Management

Pillar IIIRisk Reduction and Resilience Education

1. New school building must resilient to disasters

1. Establishment of School Disaster Management Committee

1. Orientation of Safe School Guideline

2. Identifying and prioritizing schools where need renovation and reconstruction

2. Developing and implementing DRR action plan

2. Mainstreaming DRR into formal curriculum

3. All schools must be safe in order to minimize risks

3. Developing and implementing disaster and emergency preparedness plan

3. Teacher Training

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Pillar ISchool Facilities

Pillar IISchool Disaster Management

Pillar IIIDRR Education

4. Safety in accessing school 4. Follow –up, monitoring, evaluation and reporting

4. Capacity building of School Disaster Management Committee, teachers and Children Council

5. School has clean water and sanitation

5. First aid training in school

6. Life skills on educating hygiene, first aid assistance and preventing epidemics

6. Developing key messages to mitigate school vulnerability

7. Nutrition and food safety

8. Learning environment and child protection

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Safe School Facilities Safe School Facilities Pillar I, Action 2

Pillar I, Action 2

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Pillar I, Action 3Safe School Facilities Safe School Facilities

Pillar I, Action 4Safe School Facilities Safe School Facilities

Pillar I, Action 4Safe School Facilities Safe School Facilities

Pillar I, Action 4Safe School Facilities Safe School Facilities

Pillar I, Action 4Safe School Facilities Safe School Facilities

Pillar I, Action 5Safe School Facilities Safe School Facilities

Pillar I, Action 5Safe School Facilities Safe School Facilities

Pillar I, Action 5Safe School Facilities Safe School Facilities

Pillar I, Action 6Safe School Facilities Safe School Facilities

Pillar I, Action 6Safe School Facilities Safe School Facilities

Pillar I, Action 7Safe School Facilities Safe School Facilities

Pillar I, Action 8Safe School Facilities Safe School Facilities

Pillar I, Action 8Safe School Facilities Safe School Facilities

Pillar II, Action 1School Disaster Management School Disaster Management

Pillar II, Action 2&3School Disaster Management School Disaster Management

Pillar II, Action 3School Disaster Management School Disaster Management

Pillar II, Action 4School Disaster Management School Disaster Management

Pillar III, Action 1&2Risk Reduction and Resilience Education Risk Reduction and Resilience Education

Pillar III, Action 1&2Risk Reduction and Resilience Education Risk Reduction and Resilience Education

Pillar III, Action 3&4Risk Reduction and Resilience Education Risk Reduction and Resilience Education

Pillar III, Action 5Risk Reduction and Resilience Education Risk Reduction and Resilience Education

Pillar III, Action 5Risk Reduction and Resilience Education Risk Reduction and Resilience Education

Pillar III, Action 6Risk Reduction and Resilience Education Risk Reduction and Resilience Education

• In the beginning of the project, School Support Committee

and Children Council did not understand about their roles

and responsibilities in promoting Safe Schools.

• In the beginning of the project, Task Force and Writing

Committee had limited knowledge on DRR and Safe School

concepts lead to slow down the development of Safe

School Initiative.

Challenges

• Times consumed to build the capacity of School Support

Committee, Children Council, Commune Committee for

Disaster Management

• A lot of support made to support Task Force and Writing

Committee established by the MoEYS of RGC to develop

Safe School Initiative

Lessons Learnt

• Continue partnership with CRF, and cooperating with MoEYS,

and providing capacity building to them through training,

workshop, mentoring and coaching on DRR and safe school

• Continue technical support to CRF to provide capacity building

to School Support Committee, Children Council, Commune

Committee for Disaster Management in target areas on DRR

and safe school

• Through CRF, support Task Force and Writing Committee to

finalize and launching Safe School Initiative nationwide and

expanding to 72 target schools in 24 provinces/capital using

Safe School Initiative within the next few years for greater

impacts

Way Forward

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