Organization for Development, Renovation and Equipping schools of I.R. IRAN

Organization for Development, Renovation and Equipping Schools of IR. Iran (DRES) Educational centers are one of the vulnerable locations in the case of disaster, thus generating an action plan to decrease losses should be considered as an important goal. Various worldwide initiatives have been taken to make school buildings safer and have disaster risk reduction taught in school. Iran is also one of the most seismically active countries in the world and therefore earthquake which is known as a destructive disaster occurs frequently in this country. In this way children are disproportionately affected by disaster, hence, mitigation and resilience seem to be vital. It is urgent to plan, anticipate and reduce the losses of disaster in order to protect the children's lives. The Organization for Development, Renovation and Equipping of Schools (DRES) of I.R. Iran as one of the subset organizations of the Ministry of Education that is the highest and the only governmental reference for Development, Renovation and Equipping of Iranian Schools was established in 1976. This state organization consists of a central office and 31 representatives in all provinces of Iran. The main role of central office is macro policy planning, supervising and managing its agencies throughout the country. The mission of this organization is to construct, develop, renovate, reconstruct and retrofit the school buildings and also to provide them with facilities and equipment all-over the country.