Working
Group 3 : Risk, Vulnerability & Disaster Impact Assessment
Chair: United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP)
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:
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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. |
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Related documents |
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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
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Comparative Analysis of
Disaster Databases
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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
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Related
documents |
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Summary
Review of Selected Regional and Global Indexes:
Disaster Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development |
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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. |
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Related
documents |
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Quantification of risk, vulnerability and
impact of disasters |
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