The Asia Pacific Coalition for School Safety (APCSS) was established on 19th Sep 2012. It is a shared framework for understanding and acting to bring about Comprehensive School Safety, including the “3 pillars”; 1. Safe Learning Facilities, 2. School Disaster Management and 3. Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience Education) founded on multi-hazard and child-centered risk assessment, education sector analysis, and alignment of education and disaster management sector policies and plans.
The members of APCSS are Plan International, Save the Children, World Vision, UNICEF, UNESCO, IFRC, ADPC and UNISDR, with Plan International as its secretariat.
The APCSS aims to create a space at the regional level for discussion and sharing of technical resources, good practices/lesson learns and model policies on Safe Schools to minimize the impacts of disasters to children’s education and to coordinate and promote advocacy for Comprehensive School Safety.
e-mail: Asia Regional Safe School Program Coordinator, Trinh Trong Nghia at nghia.trinhtrong@plan-international.org
Guiding documents
APCSS Statement at 2nd ASEAN Conference on School Safety
Asia-Pacific Coalition for School Safety (APCSS) calls for the engagement of more partners to join ASEAN Safe School Initiative (ASSI) in South-East Asia to accelerate and upscale the initiative and make it as effective as possible. It hopes that coordination at national and regional levels will be enhanced and collaborative efforts of interested stakeholders in Asia-Pacific region will increase the number of countries that adopt and implement approaches consistent with Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSSF). APCSS calls on governments to sign up as a Safe School Leader as part of Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools (WISS) for a stronger and more resilient Asia-Pacific
Advancing Comprehensive School Safety in Asia Pacific (APCSS)
The policy briefing calls for countries and their humanitarian and development partners to urgently ensure children’s rights to safety and security in schools, and to educational continuity in the face of emergencies are included in the Asia Regional Implementation Plans, AMCDRR declaration, national education and disaster management plans and policies, and collect better data to monitor the progress.