A ceremony was conducted to hand over ownership of 24 improved schools IN At GPS Chanar No. 1 in Buner District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Buner, 23 April 2025 – A handover ceremony for 24 retrofitted schools was held at Government Primary School (GPS) Chanar No. 1 in District Buner, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), marking a key milestone in efforts to create safer and more disaster-resilient learning environments for children in some of Pakistan’s most climate-vulnerable regions.
The initiative is part of the Disaster Resilient School Infrastructure (DRSI) project, funded by JICA and jointly implemented by UN-Habitat and UNDP, in close collaboration with the Elementary and Secondary Education Department, Government of KP.
Under the project, 150 schools across the districts of Buner, Malakand, Peshawar, Swat, Lower Chitral, Upper Chitral, Lower Dir, and Upper Dir are being retrofitted to meet critical structural safety and resilience standards. The project is directly benefiting 31,218 students – including 13,595 girls – while supporting Pakistan’s commitment under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, which underscores the need to make schools disaster-resilient, especially in earthquake and flood-prone areas like KP.