About

Risk Reduction Education for Disasters, Risk RED, is a U.S.-based non-governmental organisation that has long championed the right of children to safer schools worldwide. Risk RED helps ensure that in hazard-prone regions, a child's right to safety, survival and education is protected and that communities have the capacity to safeguard these rights.

Risk RED members were instrumental in the development of the Comprehensive School Safety Framework, recently adopted as the foundation for launching the Worldwide Initiative for School Safety at the World Conference on Disaster Reduction. In 2015 Risk RED worked with Save the Children, The World Bank's Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, UNESCO and Arup International Development to research and convene global experts in safer community-based school construction.

We are a member of the Global Alliance for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience in the Education Sector, and work collaboratively with global stakeholders in risk reduction education, including UNESCO, UNICEF, UNISDR, Save the Children, IFRC and others. Risk RED also has both historic and current links to other non-profits working on safer construction.

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