Roles and responsibilities
Implementing actor: Development actor, local government,
community organisation.
Financial administration, overall coordination, project
implementation, monitoring of progress.
Local government: Local departments or offices of education,
building and housing, civil protection, health and safety, human
resources and public works.
Administrative support, identification and selection of
communities with school needs, legal oversight.
School management committee: Representatives of school
staff or local education unit, parent-teacher association,
community leaders, civil society organisations, financers,
elected leaders and local emergency response authorities.
Major decision-making at the local level, including
mobilisation of local tradespeople and labourers,
engagement of public in the process and coordination
in project implementation.
Local resource persons: Local chapters or offices of
engineering associations, NG Os, Red Cross and Red Crescent
societies, training institutes, builders associations and building
craft guilds.
Professional input to construction activities, training of
skilled labour, community orientation, public education.
External experts: Hazard specialists, engineers, educators,
development workers and other specialists.
Inputs on hazard assessment, design, and other
technical work.
SECTION III: MOBILISATION
Stakeholders in safer school
construction
Community members gather for a meeting outside a school for girls in the village of Jagori, Pakistan. Photo: Joe Lapp/CRS.
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