Disaster Risk Management in Schools Project

The development objective of the Disaster Risk Management in Schools Project for Turkey is to increase the safety of students, teachers, and staff in selected schools in high-risk seismic zones in Turkey. The project comprises of three components. The first component, improving seismic resilience of schools will invest in: (i) preparation of a package of priority investments to support risk reduction in existing school buildings across the country’s high-risk seismic zones through retrofitting and reconstruction; (ii) civil works for retrofitting or reconstruction of priority education facilities; (iii) conducting additional seismic risk assessments; (iv) development of a national school retrofitting and reconstruction strategy which covers a forward-looking investment strategy and will be used at the next phases of the series; and (v) communications and awareness raising activities. The second component, enhancing institutional and technical capacity for safer schools will enhance construction and real estate department (CRED’s) engineering and analytical capacity not only for smooth implementation of this first project of the series of projects (SoP). The third component, project management will focus on strengthening government’s capacity in operations management and staff capacity.