Safe to Learn Diagnostic Tools

With the view of making schools safe, Safe to Learn members developed their joint programmatic and advocacy objectives in a five-points Call to Action, indicating what needs to happen for children to be safe to learn: 1) Implement policy and legislation; 2) Strengthen prevention and response at the school level; 3) Shift social norms and behaviour change; 4) Invest resources effectively; and 5) Generate and use evidence.

The Safe to Learn initiative, under the leadership of UNICEF and with UK FCDO’s support developed a Global Programmatic Framework and Benchmarking Tool, to support countries and partners in translating the Call to Action into practical actions. This translates the Call to Action into a set of benchmarks which countries need to meet to achieve change under each area of the Call to Action.

Based on the benchmarking tool, this diagnostic tool was then developed, to measure the quality of national efforts to prevent and respond to violence in and around schools against each benchmark, at national, decentralized and school level.

This diagnostic tool should be read in conjunction with the Safe to Learn Global Programmatic Framework and Benchmarking Tool, which provides background and resources linked to each benchmark.