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The Flu Manual was created to serve as a comprehensive educational guide for Avian Influenza (also known as Bird Flu and H5N1) with the target audience being the individual, their family and their community. The majority of information that exists within the public sector on Avian Influenza is designed for technical and medical experts and is very difficult to digest if one does not have prior knowledge about influenza. The Flu Manual serves to educate individuals about all stages of an influenza pandemic: from background and planning, to treatment of symptoms and response, to recovery. InSTEDD assembled the Flu Manual through collaboration with many experts in the field of influenza and crisis management.
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This technical annex describes the concepts, data and methods applied to achieve the Disaster Risk Index (DRI).
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Among the different recommendations from the two previous GRAVITY reports, drought was the obvious significant missing hazard. In the first GRAVITY report (feasibility study) food insecurity was highlighted for producing the largest amount of casualties. Nevertheless, due to time restriction and complexity to model such hazard, this important issue was left unstudied. The problem for the UNDP World Vulnerability Report (WVR) was that if drought was not included, a global approach on vulnerability to human development would not be achieved: as most of Africa is deeply affected by such events.
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This study presents the results from the second phase of the project Global Risk And Vulnerability Index Trend per Year (GRAVITY) developed by UNEP/GRID-Geneva for the UNDP/BPRD. At the end of the first phase - the feasibility study - which consisted on the identification of global data sets and indicators for explaining casualties from natural hazards, twelve recommendations were made. The second phase has concentrated on the delimitation of this physical exposure based on methodologies and collection of data sets previously developed at UNEP/GRID-Geneva [PREVIEW project, 2000], in order to highlight places of high natural hazard occurrences.
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The objective of the present study is to provide UNDP/ERD with a statistical analysis, that aims to gather, prepare the information in order to highlight factors related to human vulnerability and allows the comparison between countries (thus requiring extensive normalisation). The tasks undertaken include the identification and treatment of the most accurate available data sets on geographical, and geophysical parameters to determine the exposure of the countries. As well as socio-economical factors that are connected trough a thorough analysis with the information recorded on human losses per event extracted from the International Disaster Database from CRED.
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This Report introduces a pioneering Disaster Risk Index (DRI) that measures the relative vulnerability of countries to three key natural hazards — earthquake, tropical cyclone and flood — identifies development factors that contribute to risk, and shows in quantitative terms, just how the effects of disasters can be either reduced or exacerbated by policy choices
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A one pager paper from UNDP/UNEP on using Vulnerability/Risk Assessments as Early Warning as prevention programming
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The PREVIEW - IMS project aims to identify risk and human vulnerability to natural hazards in relation with socio-economic and physical factors. This tool allows the visualisation of data on natural disasters. Users may perform zooms, pan to a particular area, add different layers of general data including cities, national parks, etc... Different backgrounds can be chosen to highlight different components reflecting vulnerability, such as population density, Human Development Index (HDI) or the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Layers of natural disasters can be added including droughts, earthquakes, fires, floods, cyclones and tsunamis.
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Data visualization of the disaster risk index has been designed by GRID-Europe. The pioneering Disaster Risk Index (DRI) Analysis Tool measures the relative vulnerability of countries to three key natural hazards — earthquake, tropical cyclone and flood — and identifies development factors that contribute to risk, and shows in quantitative terms, just how the effects of disasters can be either reduced or exacerbated by policy choices. Our hope is that the toolx will both help generate renewed interest in this critical development issue and help bring together stakeholders around more careful and coherent planning to mitigate the impact of future disasters.
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A vulnerability index for the natural environment, the basis of all human welfare, has been developed by the South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and their partners. The index was developed through consultation and collaboration with countries, institutions and experts across the globe. This index is designed to be used with economic and social vulnerability indices to provide insights into the processes that can negatively influence the sustainable development of countries.
