The Education Safe from Disasters Project, a collaboration of Save the Children (SCP), Prudence Foundation, and the Department of Education (DepEd), aims to effectively address the challenges and barriers that prevent the adoption and scaling up of safe schools in the Philippines. To this end, the Project will design a strategy to bring about transformational change for children’s lives, supporting the improvement of systems, mechanisms, and capacity on the Comprehensive School Safety (CSS) at all levels of DepEd, thereby reducing children’s vulnerability risk from all hazards and threats.
ANSA-EAP was engaged by SCP to roll out the project “Developing a Model for Comprehensive School Safety Using the Social Accountability Approach”. The Project’s aim was to a) support DepEd’s goal of incorporating child participation in their programs and policies, b) empower children to engage in school safety issues and concerns, c) adopt a child-centered social accountability process for a meaningful children’s participation in safe schools programming, and d) contribute practical knowledge on child-centered DRR and Safe Schools Report Framework.
The results of the Project include a) The Context Study Report, b) The Capacity-Building Pilot Activity Report, c) A Model for Comprehensive School Safety Using the Social Accountability Approach, and d) The CSS-CCSA Toolkit.
In addition, ANSA has pilot-tested a number of CSS two-day online sessions in elementary and high schools in the Central Luzon area. It used a learning design based on the outcomes of the research. Further pilot-testing in the schools is still to be done in schools in Region 3.