Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management in School Infrastructure Management in the Dominican Republic

  • Country name

    Dominican Republic

  • Project Dates

    02/05/2018 -

  • Status

    Active

  • Funding source

    GFDRR, Gov. of Japan, World Bank

Overview

Type of Engagement
Advisory Services and Analytics (ASA)
Benefited schools (Potential)
6,500
Benefited students (Potential)
1,760,000
Committed Amount
$ 1,245,000
Government Counterpart
Ministry of Education

Description

Mainstreaming Disaster Risk Management in School Infrastructure Management in the Dominican Republic supported the Dominican Republic’s Ministry of Education in the integration of risk reduction criteria into the regulation, planning, design, construction, and management of school infrastructure. In 2017, the government began adjusting the institutional framework of the ministry by creating within it the General Directorate for Rehabilitation and the General Directorate for Disaster Risk Management, whose mission was to address the needs of existing school infrastructure and fulfill the need for new infrastructure and to develop a risk-informed approach to managing school facilities.

 

Activities supported by the World Bank

  • Improvement of the school infrastructure baseline through the use of GLOSI methodology and tools

  • Seismic and hurricane risk assessments of the public school infrastructure nationwide

  • Provision of technical advice for the formulation of a seismic risk mitigation program for school infrastructure 

  • Enhancement of the Ministry of Education’s institutional capacity to generate, understand, and use risk information in decision-making processes 

Main outputs

  • Web module for school infrastructure and mobile app to collect basic school infrastructure data

  • Seismic and hurricane risk assessments of the public school infrastructure

  • Proposal for a seismic risk mitigation program for public school facilities

  • Government staff trained in the use risk information