CARIBBEAN SAFE SCHOOL INITIATIVE (CSSI)
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The ‘Caribbean Safe School Initiative’ (CSSI) was launch in April 2017 during the ‘First Caribbean Ministerial Forum on School Safety’. The CSSI is the suggested framework to advance school safety in the Caribbean. The initiative is the Caribbean contribution to the ‘Worldwide-Initiative on Safe Schools (WISS)’ and shall be a partnership for advancing safe school implementation at the national level among Caribbean countries. Ministries of Education will lead the implementation supported by international, regional and national partners.
The CSSI is supported by the ‘Antigua and Barbuda Declaration on School Safety’, currently endorsed by 18 Caribbean countries. School safety action guiding the commitment to the declaration are guided by the ‘Caribbean Roadmap for School Safety’, a key development during the ‘First Caribbean Ministerial Forum on School Safety’ in 2017 and updated in 2019 during the ‘Second Caribbean Ministerial Forum on School Safety’.
The ‘Third Caribbean Ministerial Forum on School Safety’, originally scheduled to take place in 2021 in St. Maarten, has been postponed to 2022 due to the Coronavirus pandemic. In its place the ‘Regional Review on School Safety in the context of Systemic Risk: The Virtual Caribbean Safe School Initiative Pre-Ministerial Forum’, held online in March 2021. |
Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools (WISS):
The Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools (WISS) is a government-led global partnership for advancing safe school implementation at the national level. The Initiative is coordinated by UNISDR and was developed in collaboration with key partners from the Global Alliance on Disaster Risk Reduction Education and Resilience in the Education Sector as a response to the High Level Dialogue Communiqué at the 2013 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction.
The Worldwide Initiative for Safe Schools focuses on motivating and supporting Governments to develop national strategies and implement school safety. The Initiative builds on the Comprehensive School Safety Frameworkand defines a safe school as a school combining all of the following elements:
The Initiative also promotes good practices and achievements in safe school implementation for replication in other countries and regions, helps identify challenges and offers technical assistance and particular expertise around the three pillars to support interested Governments in implementing school safety at the national level.
Caribbean Ministry of Education are encourage to join the Worldwide Initiative on School Safety.