The central focus of this program is on reducing risks and the vulnerability to disasters through innovative endeavors in the education sector. The program addresses the risks and the vulnerabilities with the following four objectives:

• Enhance coordinated and informed actions of national level platform for reducing disaster risks in education.
• Increase capacity of stakeholders on sustainable preparedness measures to reduce disaster risks in education.
• Stimulate organized actions for emergency response and recovery in education
• Facilitate actions for integrating education needs in DRR mechanism and making education system resilient to DRR.