Making Schools Resilient at Scale : The Case of Japan
Japan's Program for Earthquake-Resistant School Buildings has increased the seismic safety of Japanese schools, and hence increased the safety of Japanese schoolchildren, teachers, and communities. Since 2003, when the program accelerated, the...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/476701508164287969/Making-schools-resilient-at-scale-the-case-of-Japan http://hdl.handle.net/10986/28606 |
| Summary: | Japan's Program for
Earthquake-Resistant School Buildings has increased the
seismic safety of Japanese schools, and hence increased the
safety of Japanese schoolchildren, teachers, and
communities. Since 2003, when the program accelerated, the
share of earthquake-resistant public elementary and junior
high schools has increased, from under half of schools in
2002 to over 95 percent in April 2015. Japan is sharing
knowledge from this program with developing countries
through its relationship with the Global Facility for
Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR), whose Global
Program for Safer Schools has been supported by the
Japan–World Bank Program for Mainstreaming Disaster Risk
Management in Developing Countries and its implementing arm,
the Disaster Risk Management Hub, Tokyo. |
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