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WCDRR: NSET hosts Panel Discussion on School Earthquake Safety
Panel Discussion on School Earthquake Safety held at Sendai at WCDRR!
Schools in developing countries are vulnerable to numerous natural hazards, the most prominent being earthquakes, landslides, flood and soil erosion. This vulnerability is due to a chronic weakness in school building construction as well as a lack school disaster risk management system. A low level awareness among teachers, students, parents and other stakeholders is the root cause of these vulnerable conditions.
Many countries have put the school disaster safety issues in high priority. Nepal has made great strides in developing concepts and methodologies on School Earthquake Safety by combining physical vulnerability reducing and enhancing school disaster risk management planning. Such efforts of structural, non-structural, and functional vulnerability reduction have, either comprehensively or at least in one of the three components, been successfully implemented in about 500 public schools in Nepal.
This session provided opportunity to bring multiple ideas on and discuss the issues of School Safety and mutually learn from the similar programs/initiatives in the developing countries.
Panelists:
• Mr. Jhapper Singh Vishokarma, Senior Divisional Engineer, Department of Education, Nepal
• Mr. Iwan Gunawan, World Bank, Indonesia
• Mr. Hari Kumar, Geo Hazards International
• Mr. Nick Ireland, Save the Children
• Professor Kimiro Meguro, The University of Tokyo
Session Moderator:
• Ramesh Guragain, Deputy Executive Director, National Society of Earthquake Technology-Nepal (NSET)
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