The Weather Channel has created Weather Ready, a website where you can log in and create a family preparedness plan, learn about dangerous weather in your area, and watch videos about severe weather safety.
The Asian Disaster Preparedness Center's Regional Consultative Committee on Disaster Management, RCC Guideline 6.1 are guidelines begin developed for Ministries of Education in Asia to guide the introduction and infusion of disaster risk reduction into school curricula. Priority Implementation Projects are designed to kick-start these efforts in selected countries.
The World Bank Institute Disaster Risk Management Learning Program provides online courses and printed materials to promote proactive disaster risk management practices by raising awareness among key stakeholders and by advancing the analytical skills and professional knowledge of development practitioners in specific areas of disaster risk management.
This initiative of the Organization of American States (OAS) promotes the adoption of policies for safe schools, disaster risk reduction education, and schools as hubs for community education. This policy advocacy and awareness effort has spurred several important initiatives in Latin American
Twenty-five members states are party to the Council of Europe' Major Hazards Open Partial Agreement which reinforces cooperation between member sates to ensure better prevention, protection and organization of relief. Ministerial Sessions raise awareness among policy-makers, adopting resolutions and making recommendations regarding knowledge transmission, education on disaster reduction, school curricula and teacher training (Council of Europe, 2005, 2006)
The World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) is developing various instruments to support its client governments to intergrate risk reduction strategies in development processes, building capacities at the local and national levels to disaster proof the MDGsh, and supporting ongoing UNISDR processes.
Part of the IFRC's global agenda for 2006-2010 is to scale up their actions with vulnerable communities in disaster risk reduction.
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has developed publications on managing disasters, including: Large-Scale Disasters: Lessons Learned, Catastrophic Risks and Insurance, Terrorism Risk Insurance in OECD Countries and Keeping Schools Safe in Earthquakes. Projects include: Futures Project on Risk Management and The OECD Directorate for Education, Programme on Educational Buildings which has meetings and publications on school safety. Their recommendations on Safe Schools have been adopted by 30 countries.
The UN/ISDR aims at building disaster resilient communities by promoting increased awareness of the importance of disaster reduction as an integral component of sustainable development, with the goal of reducing human, social, economic and environmental losses due to natural hazards and related technological and environmental disasters. The World Conference on Disaster Reduction which adopted The Hyogo Framework for Action, and the bienniel Global Platform meetings, and campaigns focus the attention of national decision-makers on disaster reduction. The Disaster Reduction Begins in Schools Campaign (2005-2007) in particular highlighted the importance of awareness and risk reduction education. Follow-on activities of the Knowledge and Educat
British Columbia's Provincial Emergency Preparedness Program has developed the School Earthquake Safety Guidebook, which is distributed to schools.
