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term environmental planning from 2011 to 2021. One of
PLANAA’s main objectives is to achieve complete implementation
of the National Policy on Disaster Prevention and Response at
the national level by 2021. In order to achieve this, Strategic
Action 7.6 seeks to strengthen environmental education at
basic and secondary levels. The measurement for this objective
is the percentage of primary and secondary schools with outstanding
achievements in environmental education (Ministerio
del Ambiente, 2011, 38).
At the international level, Peru is also deeply committed to
regional integration processes that have brought DRR to the
forefront. In 2002 Peru became part of the Andean sub-regional
mechanism for Prevention and Response in Disasters
(CAPRADE) that promotes a DRR Andean Strategy. From
2004 to 2009, Peru participated in a Project to Support Disaster
Risk Prevention (PREDECAN) in the Andean Community (CAN).
The main objective of PREDECAN was to ‘contribute to reduce
vulnerability of people and goods exposed to natural hazards
and risks; and to promote sustainable development within the
CAN countries’ 99 . Education and communication was one of
the working areas of PREDECAN which resulted in the creation
of a series of documents aimed at facilitating and guiding
DRR insertion in school curricula.
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Disaster Risk Reduction in School Curricula: Case Studies from Thirty Countries