Participation of schools in Quantified Cities Movement for Disaster Risk Reduction (QCM-DRR) 2016-17
The QCM-DRR project has been created in order to train adolescent and youth (school children) in collecting data on indicators of disaster risk reduction and resilience in Pune city. The indicators for the same were collected at the neighbourhood level, focusing on participation for localized action for urban DRR planning and resilience building, creating transparency in the process of planning, and monitoring the progress of implementation to ensure positive changes in Disaster Risk Reduction and Urban Resilience for the purpose of the pilot action research study for QCM-DRR.
Pune city boasts more than 700 schools. These schools come under various boards such as ICSE, SSE, IB and CBSE and are split between private and public schools. Each school has a varied number of students and teachers and are spread all over Pune city. QCM-DRR has enabled more than 5000 students from 33 schools.
The map below shows the 33 schools which participated in QCM-DRR activities in 2016-17. By clicking on the dot that represents the school you can view the name, address and board of education the school comes under.