Integrating into School Curriculum in Lesotho - PreventionWeb

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Integrating DRR into Curriculum: A Bold Step Towards
Culture of Safety
W
ith support from UNICEF for disaster risk reduction (DRR) and
Education in Emergency (EiE) has seen an increase in the
investment to Lesotho. These investments are diverse. For
example, the support is being provided for integrating disaster risk reduction
into national curriculum. This is a partnership between UNICEF and Ministry
of Education and Training (MoET).
The success in achieving the objective of this partnership is now well translated
by National Curriculum Development Center (NCDC).
I can see their commitment in pooling its resources for
making this exercise a success. This workshop also
provides an opportunity for the curriculum developers,
attached to NCDC, to internalize the basic concept of
DRR.
This is a beginning. In the context of Lesotho, we have
to travel far in terms of building culture of safety in
school. It needs more educational programmes,
strategy, mechanism, methods, or procedure for
sustaining the efforts on DRR in the education system
so that students’ knowledge and awareness of DRR are
effectively increased. And, it also require more efforts
on instructional material development, training and professional development, monitoring
and assessment of leaning outcomes.
UNICEF, we hope, will continue its support. I thank NCDC for treating this as top priority.
Ms. Seriti Morojele-Doroto
Chief Education Officer, Curriculum Development
Ministry of Education and Training, Lesotho
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