In this category, you will find the 510 products that pertain to Disaster Preparedness. With the following products, we assess the possible risks of communities, epidemics and landscapes:
CRA: COMMUNITY RISK ASSESSMENT
WHAT IS CRA Community Risk Assessment (CRA) is a dashboard that identifies and predicts the geographic areas that are most affected by a natural disaster. WHY IT IS NEEDED There is a lot of knowledge of risk at a national level, but a clear lack of risk assessment on subnational & governmental levels. The goal…
ERA: EPIDEMIC RISK ASSESSMENT
WHAT IS ERA A model that quickly identifies the areas that are most at risk of epidemics. WHY IT IS NEEDED According to the World Economic Forum, the list of most destructive and costly natural disasters includes infectious diseases. In this regard, Smith et. al (2014) reported that from 2000 to 2010 the count of…
… and LRA: LANDSCAPE RESTORATION ASSESSMENT (More info to come)
Below is a collection of posts pertaining to Digital Risk Assessment and the activities pertaining to it.
SPATIAL DATA & SDG REPORTING IN GLOBAL SOUTH
Changing of the guard? The rise of spatial data for reporting on the SDGs in the Global South Written by Heleen Elenbaas for the brokeronline.eu This piece was elected runner-up in the CSDS - The Broker Student Blog Competition on SDGs. Three years after drafting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the first steps of progress towards…
DATA COLLABORATION FOR SDG’s MALAWI
MALAWI DATA COLLABORATIVE FOR SDGs IN DRC MAKING DAMAGE PROVISIONS MORE EFFICIENT & EFFECTIVE DATA LITERACY WORKSHOP: NLRC ORTEC & 510 – Can text mining optimize humanitarian response? 2 YEARS OF DATA RESPONSIBILITY AT 510 HUMANITARIAN HACK PURPOSE, MISSION & VISION VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES HOW WE VERIFY DATA Data Responsibility Volunteer ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT: ONLINE VOLUNTEERING 510…
DATA COLLABORATIVE FOR SDGs IN DRC
Small and Big Data in Kinshasa and how to avoid travelling 10.000 km across DRC to get data! There are many other stakeholders that hold valuable data for reporting on SDGs, ranging from Small up to Big Data sets. The project “Building a Data Collaborative to support SDGs on Health & WASH in Malawi and…
FIELD: CHALLENGE OF LOW CONNECTIVITY
An excerpt from the field blog post SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTING A REMOTENESS INDICATOR MALAWI In rural Malawi, it is often a challenge to upload base maps of the visitation sites and the correct survey of the day to the 20 tablets, and to download all the data collected in the field from the tablets in an…
IMPLEMENTING DATA PREPAREDNESS
Written by 510 SCIENTIFIC LEAD Marc van den Homberg. The Netherlands Red Cross has a long-term partnership with Malawi Red Cross, working together on humanitarian response and Disaster Risk Reduction. In 2015 the shelter cluster was activated in Malawi during one of the worst floods in the history of Malawi that led to a severe…
SUCCESSFULLY IMPLEMENTING A REMOTENESS INDICATOR MALAWI
Written by Jurg Wilbrink 510 GEO INFORMATION SERVICES The 510 initiative is working with the Malawi Red Cross to identify the country’s most vulnerable areas. A workshop and mapping exercise were held on data collection and sharing with different stakeholders in Malawi. Vulnerability data contributes to the Red Cross’ data preparedness initiative (see also Method:…