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Summary

The Government of Nepal and, Ministry of Education developed the Comprehensive School Safety Master Plan in 2017 based on the global initiative of Three Pillars of Comprehensive School Safety Framework of the UNISDR/Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector.

The Framework’ is adopted by United Nations agencies and humanitarian organizations in the education sector and seeks to ensure children and school personnel are accessing a learning environment that complies with minimum safety standards in protecting children from natural and other disasters, and that disruptions to education are mitigated to the extent possible. It rests on three overlapping pillars of safe learning facilities, school disaster management, and risk reduction and resilience education.