Building Climate Resilience in Mozambique - the case of Safer Schools

This publication starts with a description of the country’s overall natural hazard exposure and then focuses on human settlements’ vulnerability in Mozambique (Chapter 1). In Chapter 2 it describes the first milestone of UN-Habitat’s activities - the establishment of the Living with Natural Hazards approach - and its implementation through pilot demonstration buildings. It also gives examples of the construction interventions and methodology adopted in the Participation, Awareness and Didactic Approach. 

The narrative of Chapter 3 analyses the education sector. It gives an outline of its historical development and the geographic distribution of school infrastructure, as well as the vulnerabilities and risk profiles. This introduces the second milestone: the start of the preparatory activities, the implementation and the subsequent scaling-up from local demonstration pilots to the national scale. It further describes how the strategic and normative frameworks for resilient school construction in Mozambique have been influenced. The fourth chapter analyses how UN-Habitat’s work resulted in the Guidelines on School Safety and Resilient School Building Codes and ...