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- Summary:
- This guidance note outlines how governments in impoverished developing regions can cost-effectively plan and build primary school infrastructure that is accessible, durable, functional, safe, hygienic, and easily maintained (p.1). Ensuring these qualities is critical to establishing an environment that is conducive to improving and sustaining learning gains. The document was prepared to provide guidance to national governments and development partners embarking on initiatives to build primary school infrastructure or reviewing existing arrangements (p.3). It is composed of three sections, along with three appendices. The first section discusses how to develop a delivery strategy. The second addresses the process of preparing a school infrastructure programme. The third section sets out key areas of focus for effective implementation of the programme, as well as important monitoring and evaluation processes. In developing a delivery strategy, the guidance note underlines three issues relevant to success: (i) political will on the part of governments, (ii) long-term support from development partners, and (iii) professional expertise within the government and its development partners. The document also points to fifteen key concerns that must be addressed in a delivery strategy. Amongst those fifteen are risk management, risk monitoring, and risk evaluation (p.8), thus highlighting the essential importance of disaster risk reduction (DRR) in developing sustainable school infrastructure. The authors believe that it takes between six to twelve months to prepare a school infrastructure programme, which should include several preparation activities such as awareness-raising, data gathering, and school mapping. In the third section, issues concerning the effective implementation of the programme are discussed (p.17). These include technical assistance, funding, capacity building, monitoring and evaluation, and continual refinement. In the annex section, the note discusses key issues with regard to DRR. It considers the following four items as essential for primary school infrastructure that is safe and sustainable: (i) hazard identification, (ii) appropriate location of school facilities, (iii) good design and construction, and (iv) disaster management planning and community awareness (p.A6). ( English )
- Subject:
- Education and Disaster Risk Reduction ( English )
- Citation/Reference:
- Bonner, R., Das, P.K., Kalra, R., Leathes, B., Wakeham, N. (2011). Delivering cost effective and sustainable school infrastructure. The TI-UP Resource Centre, UK Department for International Development (DFID).
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- Florida International University
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- Resource Identifier:
- FI13042198
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