The 2nd ASEAN Regional Conference on School Safety was held on February, 14th – 15th 2017 in Bangkok, Thailand. This second conference was hosted by the Thailand’s Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) as the co-chair to the ASEAN Committee on Disaster Management Working Group on Prevention and Mitigation, collaborating with the ASEAN Secretariat and ASEAN Safe Schools Initiative (ASSI) consortium (Plan International, Save the Children, World Vision and Mercy Malaysia).
The conference built on the initial efforts of school safety programmes in the ASEAN region and was aimed at gathering representatives from the Ministries of Education (MOE) and National Disaster Management Organisations (NDMOs) to exchange knowledge and share learnings on school safety programming, discuss ASEAN region’s progress in implementing school safety and partnership, wider stakeholders’ engagement, and ways forward for school safety in ASEAN.
read more