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Working Group 3 : Risk, Vulnerability & Disaster Impact Assessment

Chair: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

ISDR-IATF Working Group # 3 on Risk, Vulnerability and Impact Assessment
Report from a Meeting on Improving the Quality, Coverage and Accuracy of Disaster Loss Data
Geneva, May 7, 2004

Objectives:

  • Document approaches, methods and tools for risk, vulnerability and impact assessment and promote information sharing and dissemination;
  • Facilitate co-ordination and improve synergy between international, regional, national, scientific, academic, nongovernmental and private sector organizations in developing and applying approaches to risk, vulnerability and impact assessment;
  • Identify gaps and issues to be resolved in the development and application of risk, vulnerability and impact assessment and recommend and propose policy initiatives and strategies to the IATF to address such issues and gaps; and
  • Play an advocacy role within the priority areas of ISDR-IATF, specifically highlighting small- and medium-scale disasters and their socio-economic and ecological risks, as well as the need for the continual linking of disaster risk management to development planning and vice versa.

Goals:
Contribute to sustainable reduction in disaster risk by incorporating approaches, methods and tools for risk, vulnerability and impact assessment in risk reduction processes.


Sub-groups

The Working Groups 3 is subdivided into 3 sub-groups with the following responsibilities and co-chairs:

 

Sub-group 1:
Improving the Quality, Coverage and Accuracy of Disaster Database
Chair: IRI Columbia University

This sub-group initiated a serie of studies to compare existing disaster databases.

One study compared historical disaster event data for Chile, Colombia, Jamaica and Panama from two data bases, EMDAT, maintained by the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED), and DesInventar, developed by the Network for Social Studies on Disaster Prevention in Latin America (LA RED).

The second other study, initiated by the ProVention Consortium and carried out by CRED, compared data for Honduras, India, Mozambique and Vietnam from EMDAT and two other global databases, NatCat and Sigma, maintained by the Munich and Swiss Reinsurance companies, respectively.

An other main area of focus is the potential for linking disaster and related data from different sources through a common unique identifying number (GLIDE) that would be assigned to each event. An unambiguous reference to each event would facilitate comparison and synthesis of data from multiple sources and contribute towards the development of an integrated, multi-tiered global disaster database.

   
  Related documents
 
(522Kb) The Quality and Accuracy of Disaster Data
A Comparative Analyses of Three Global Data Sets

Debarati Guha-Sapir
Regina Below
WHO Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
University of Louvain School of Medicine
Brussels, Belgium

for
The ProVention Consortium
The Disaster Management Facility, The World Bank

   
(2.60Mb) Comparative Analysis of Disaster Databases
 
 

Sub-group 2:
Review of Indexes relevant for Risk and Vulnerability Indexing
Chair: UNDP

This newly established sub-group covers the following topics:

  • Review of relevant indexes
  • Examples of disaster risk indexes
  • Disaster risk reduction framework and its potential indexing
   
  Related documents
 
(111Kb) Summary Review of Selected Regional and Global Indexes:
Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development
 
 

Sub-group 3:
Tools and best Practices for Risk and Vulnerability Analysis at the Local and Urban Levels
Chair: UN-HABITAT

This Sub-group is working in collection and organisation of an inventory of risk analysis and vulnerability mitigation tools, which can be easily, accessed both by UN-ISDR partners and the general public through the Internet.

The sub-group is presently in the first phase of the project which is the web-site architecture, the intensive collection of further tools and information, the development through consultation guidelines for highlighting best practices in disaster management, and the organisation of the material in an accessible manner.

   
  Related documents
 
(279Kb) Quantification of risk, vulnerability and impact of disasters
 


Members

Institution Name email
ADPC Loy Rego ajrego@adpc.net
ADRC Masayuki KITAMOTO kitamoto@adrc.or.jp
ADRC Etsuko Tsunozaki tsunozaki@adrc.or.jp
ADRC Masaru Arakida arakida@adrc.or.jp
Center for Studies on Disease and Natural Risk, Colombia Omar Cardona ocardona@uniandes.edu.co
CRED Debarati Gupa-Sapir sapir@epid.ucl.ac.be
gupasapird@who.ch
DG/JRC Ana Lisa Vetere Arellano ana.vetere@jrc.it
UN-HABITAT Dan Lewis dan.lewis@unhabitat.org
ICSU Bob Hamilton bhamilto@nas.edu
IFRC Eva von Oelreich oelreich@ifrc.org
IISD Mark Halle mhalle@ictsd.ch
IRI Maxx Dilley mdilley@iri.columbia.edu
LARED Fernando Ramirez clorito@andinet.com
Munich Re Gerhard Berz gberz@munichre.com
NSET Amod Mani Dixit adixit@nset.org.np
OAS Steve Bender sbender@oas.org,
jobsob@mindspring.com
OCHA Craig Duncan Duncan@un.org
OCHA Pablo Recalde recalde@un.org
SOPAC Alan Mearns alan@sopac.org.fj
UN/ISDR Mohamed Abchir abchir@un.org
UN/ISDR Haris Sanahuja haris.sanahuja@undp.org
hsanahuja@hotmail.com
UNCRD Kenji Okazaki okazaki@yogo.uncrd.or.jp
UNDP Andrew Maskrey andrew.maskrey@undp.org
UNDP Yasemin Aysan yasemin.aysan@undp.org
UNEP Pascal Peduzzi pascal.peduzzi@grid.unep.org
UNEP Ron Witt ron.witt@grid.unep.ch
UNEP Norberto Fernández norberto.fernandez@unep.org
UNESCO Soren Malling s.malling@unesco.org
UNHCR Aziz Ahamed ahamed@unhcr.ch
University of Geneva Jean-Jacques Wagner jean-jacques.wagner@terre.unige.ch
WFP Daly Belgasmi daly.belgasmi@wfp.org
WMO/WCA Paul Llanso wcasp@gateway.wmo.ch,
Llanso_P@gateway.wmo.ch
World Agency of Planetary Monitoring and Earthquake Risk Reduction, Geneva Max Wyss author@maxwyss.com
World Bank Margaret Arnold Marnold@worldbank.org

 

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