SECTION III: POST-CONSTRUCTION
Government agencies provide:
• Approvals
• Maintenance and Operation Funds
Once construction is completed, school communities have
the opportunity to take on a larger role in school safety.
Efforts shift towards maintaining the building and grounds,
as well as investing in a more holistic culture of safety
through Pillars 2 and 3 of the Comprehensive School Safety
Framework. A community-based approach to safer school
construction can catalyse initiatives for broader school safety
– tasks for which school management committees and staff,
parent-teacher associations and students have partial or full
responsibility.
As construction nears completion, the person(s) or
contractor responsible for construction must develop
maintenance manuals for the school handover. Government
agencies need to integrate the school in their system
and provide resources for operation and maintenance.
Program managers also have a role – they should ensure
maintenance manuals are produced and disseminated
appropriately and that the school community has the
capacity to effectively operate and maintain the school
before they disengage. At a strategic level, the implementing
actors should assess successes and challenges in the
construction process, looking for ways to further perpetuate
school safety.
Post-construction
key activities:
• Development of
Maintenance and
User Manuals
• School handover
• Development of
maintenance plans
• Support a culture of
safety
• Scale up and promote
accountabilty
Local community
provides:
• Trained school staff
• School Disaster
Management
Committee
• Maintenance staff
School management
committee
Commitment
to safer schools
Implementing organisation
(e.g. NGO, CBO, local authority) provides:
• Program manager
to facilitate process
Local
stakeholders
• Community
training
During the Post-Construction Stage, manuals and plans for
maintenance are formalised and program managers hand
the school over to communities. At the school level, school
management committees foster a broad culture of safety founded
on comprehensive school safety. At the programmatic and strategic
level, implementing organisations and government agencies work to
scale-up safer school construction.
SECTION III: POST-CONSTRUCTION
The Post-Construction
Stage: School operation,
maintenance and safety
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