Safer Schools Pacific Roadmap Technical Assistance
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Safer Schools Pacific Roadmap Technical Assistance was a multiyear program of research and capacity-building activities carried out across the Pacific Island countries of Samoa, Tonga, and Vanuatu to increase the resilience of schools and the education sector to a range of hazards and disaster events.
Safer Schools Rapid Diagnostics in Samoa
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Safer Schools Rapid Diagnostics in Samoa assessed the vulnerability of the country’s existing school infrastructure to natural hazards, some of which were expected to get worse as a result of climate change and other contributing risk factors.
Samoa
Samoa is an upper-middle-income country and island state in the South Pacific Ocean, with a population that has doubled since 1960 to a total of 200,000. The natural hazards to which Samoa is primarily exposed are tropical storms and cyclones associated with destructive winds, rainfall, flooding, swells, storm surges, and, potentially, tornadoes.