Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities: Education System Resilience Addendum

The Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities: Education System Resilience Addendum

The Education System Resilience Scorecard Addendum provides a set of assessments that enable local governments, together with education authorities (EAs) primarily at the sub-national level and within the broader city or municipal system, to assess the resilience of the city’s education system to disasters. Building upon early inputs from IBM and Bechtel, and complemented by peer-review feedback through the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector (GADRRRES), it follows the same structure as the Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities, is aligned with the Ten Essentials for Making Cities Resilient, and complements the Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSSF) Targets and Indicators 2022-2030.

Strengthening education system resilience within cities requires close collaboration between education authorities and disaster risk reduction and management authorities, who may jointly or individually lead the use of this Scorecard addendum within the broader city resilience process.

While education authorities are responsible for the functioning of the education system, they depend heavily on other systems such as energy, water, sanitation, child protection, law and order. The Scorecard is therefore intended to be used in coordination with a wide range of stakeholders, including, but are not limited to:

• Education authorities;
• Schools, teachers, and administrative units;
• Parent and community groups;
• Disaster risk reduction and management authorities;
• Other government agencies and departments;
• Infrastructure providers and utilities;
• Development and humanitarian partners supporting education and school safety.

Where multi-stakeholder coordination mechanisms for school safety or disaster risk management already exist (at national or sub-national levels), these provide an ideal platform for applying the Scorecard.

This Scorecard Addendum is not a substitute for tools designed under the Comprehensive School Safety Assessment Suite. Rather, it complements the GADRRRES Comprehensive School Safety Framework (CSSF) by extending its application from the school level to the broader city and system levels. While the CSS Assessment Suite provides detailed, evidence-based diagnostics on school safety, preparedness, and infrastructure conditions, the Scorecard enables local governments and education authorities to assess enabling environments, such as policies, financing, governance, and inter-sectoral coordination, critical for scaling and sustaining CSSF implementation. It allows findings from CSS tools to be aggregated and used in resilient urban planning, while also ensures that education resilience is integrated into wider disaster risk reduction and urban resilience efforts. Together, the Scorecard and the CSS Assessment Suite form a mutually reinforcing approach, combining bottom-up evidence with top-down planning to support coherent and scalable school safety and education system resilience.

Using the Education System Resilience Scorecard Addendum, local governments and education authorities can:

• Establish a baseline understanding of the resilience of the education system within the city;
• Increase awareness and shared understanding of education system resilience challenges;
• Strengthen dialogue and coordination across key stakeholders who may otherwise not collaborate regularly;
• Enable discussion of priorities for investment and action, based on a shared understanding of the current situation;
• Support the development of a comprehensive resilience strategy and/or action plan;
• Track resilience progress.

This addendum is available in different file formats:

• The Accessible PDF version is made to allow universal access to the document.
• The excel tool allows you to provide interactive scoring, take note of the assessment rationale, and provide proof for verification. The excel tool can produce the pictograms showing the results of analysis at the end which are highly useful for planning and decision making. It complements the narrative provided in the PDF version. (upcoming)