Intended to help policymakers, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, make appropriate use of multigrade teaching strategies, and to support these with the necessary policies in teacher training, curriculum, and school management.

Earthquakes, droughts, floods, and storms are natural hazards, but unnatural disasters are the deaths and damages that result from human acts of omission and commission. Every disaster is unique, but each exposes actions-by individuals and governments at different levels-that, had they been...