1. Best Practices of
Safe School Initiative in Cambodia
BKK, Thailand
13-14 Nov 13

2. Outlines of Presentation
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Safe school initiative in Cambodia: 3 pillars and 18 actions
Best practices of pillar 1, 2 & 3
Challenges
Lessons learnt
Way forward

3. Safe School Initiative in Cambodia : Safe School Guidelines
Pillar I
Safe School Facilities
Pillar II
School Disaster
Management
Pillar III
Risk 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

4. Safe School Initiative in Cambodia : Safe School Guidelines (Con’t)
Pillar I
School Facilities
Pillar II
School Disaster
Management
Pillar III
DRR 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

5. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 2

6. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 2

7. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 3

8. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 4

9. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 4

10. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 4

11. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 4

12. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 5

13. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 5

14. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 5

15. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 6

16. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 6

17. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 7

18. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 8

19. Safe School Facilities
Pillar I, Action 8

20. School Disaster Management
Pillar II, Action 1

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

22. School Disaster Management
Pillar II, Action 3

23. School Disaster Management
Pillar II, Action 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

30. Challenges
• 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.

31. Lessons Learnt
• 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

32. Way Forward
• 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

33. Thank You