Development and Its Dissemination of School Disaster and Emergency Management Plan in the Republic of Turkey


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Development process, dissemination, and its impact to national disaster management of school disaster and emergency management plan in Turkey is presented. This is one component in the School-Based Disaster Education Project by Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to Ministry of National Education (MEB) in the republic of Turkey, implemented during the period from 2011 to 2014. Firstly, existing civil defense plan which is prepared for school in Turkey and school disaster management plan in Japan was reviewed comparatively. In Turkey, up to now civil defense experts had been responsible for disaster management, and civil defense plan had been prepared in every school mainly focusing on response to possible war or manmade and other disasters. In Japan, schools are designated as evacuation center during natural disaster, and are required to develop disaster management plan for natural disaster, which emphasize preparation, hazard identification, and adaptation to local context in compliance with disaster management plan of local government. Secondly, a team composed of MEB, Civil Defense, Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), school masters, and universities was formed in Turkey. Then, weekly lecture was made to the team via video conference for ten weeks, covering topics in school disaster management plan in Japan. Upon completion of the lecture, the team discussed how to adapt Japanese school disaster management plan to Turkish context, then developed a draft guideline for the development of school disaster and emergency management plan in primary and secondary schools. Then, MEB organized training to in eighty primary school masters and provincial education officers three times, and once to secondary school masters in ten provinces which were affected by the 1999 Marmara earthquake and the 1999 Düzce earthquakes. Trained teachers then developed school disaster management plan, and presented their plan to the contest. The team modified the guideline after each training including lessons learned from training. JICA project was concluded in 2013. Today, AFAD is implementing a project “Disaster Ready Turkey” targeting schools, families, work place, and youth & volunteers to develop disaster management plan for each level in whole nation, using the experience gained through JICA project. AFAD is also developing a tracking system to monitor disaster management plan development in schools together with MEB. Finally, lessons from this project are 1) Importance of forming a team at the early stage, not limiting to MEB, but also to include university researchers with a background of earthquake engineering, national disaster management organization, and civil defense responsible for disaster planning, 2) Transferring essential ideas from Japanese similar experience spending sufficient time and demonstrating reference materials, 3) Internal discussion in Turkey side to develop own school disaster management plan including local context, 4) Not showing sample plan to avoid dead copy plan, but showing principles to encourage teachers to develop locally adapted plan considering local context, and 5) Using existing framework of disaster management of AFAD and MEB, and 6) To include annual activity plan to ensure plan sustainability.

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16th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering
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Santiago (CL)
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2017-01-09 / 2017-01-13
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