Risk Analysis

Improving risk identification and analysis

Improving the analysis and identification of risk is crucial in order to provide critical information for risk reduction policy-making and help prioritise risk reduction investments. Indeed, accurate, comparable and appropriately scaled information on disaster losses, hazards, vulnerabilities and risks at the different spatial levels is fundamental for designing and implementing effective policies and programs that reduce disaster risk.

Significant progress has been made by the international community in recent years in improving the quality and accuracy of global disaster data collection, in developing indicators and indexes of disaster risk and in developing tools and methods for assessing disaster risk at the different spatial levels.

This section aims to document the key resources available in the field of risk analysis and application developed by the ProVention Consortium and our partners.

A key aspect of ProVention’s work to date has been to improve the analysis and identification of risk in order to provide critical information for risk reduction policy-making and help prioritise risk reduction investments. At a global level, ProVention’s support in developing the Disaster Risk Hotspots Analysis has made a major contribution in this area and will be followed up by applying this global analysis through the Global Risk Identification Programme (GRIP), a major new initiative co-led by UNDP, which will improve the quality, availability and access to analysis, data and information on natural hazard risks.

Key issues & gaps

  • There is a need to further improve loss estimation data to provide a more comprehensive and accurate accounting of disaster-related costs (eg, economic losses, relief costs etc.).
  • Risk estimation could be further improved to enhance the availability of information and analysis on disaster risk (eg. hazard characterisation and data, vulnerability assessments, risk indexes).
  • Local participatory risk assessment information needs to be integrated in risk assessments at the sub-national and national levels.
  • The current practice of community risk assessment could be improved further through linking pre- and post-disaster assessments, promoting more holistic approaches, linking assessments with action planning and application, etc.

Resources available on this website:

  • Losses

    • Damage and Reconstruction Needs
    • Damage, Needs and Relief Requirements
    • Disaster Data Resources

  • Risk

    • Risk assessment reports
    • On-line disaster risk resources
    • Community risk assessment
    • Food security assessment

Losses

Damage and Reconstruction Needs

Damage, Needs and Relief Requirements

Disaster Data Resources

Risk

Risk assessment reports

On-line disaster risk resources

Community risk assessment

Food security assessment