In this category, you will find the 510 products that pertain to early warning early action. With the following products we assess the possible impact on communities, with Floods, Drought, Typhoons & Epidemics.
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–IAT: IMPACT ASSESSMENT TOOLS (More info to come)
–PMT: POPULATION MOVEMENT TOOLS (More info to come)
Below is a collection of posts on Predictive Impact Analytics and the activities pertaining to it.
510 AND MALAWI RED CROSS AT THE REGIONAL AFRICAN DIALOGUE PLATFORM
WHAT IS THE AFRICAN DIALOGUE PLATFORM The Regional African Dialogue Platform on Forecast-based Financing (FbF) aims to improve understanding of the FbF concept, the funding mechanism, & methodology. It also works to foster collaboration among key actors working to reduce the impact of natural disasters, improve systems readiness and response by using the window of…
AUTOMATED IMPACT MAP SENT 120HRS BEFORE TYPHOON KAMMURI ARRIVES
WHAT IS IT ABOUT On November 29th The Philippine Red Cross FBF team received the first Automated impact map from the 510 team. This was 120hrs before expected landfall of Typhoon Kammuri/Tisoy. The FbF project in the Philippines used impact-based forecasting – overlaying the wind speed forecast with data on indicators such as building types,…
IARP ANNUAL MEETING 2019
WHAT IS IARP The Innovative Approaches to Response Preparedness (IARP) programme leverages forecast-based financing, data preparedness, and cash transfer programming to reduce the impact of climate change-related disasters on vulnerable populations. Each year, the Netherlands Red Cross works with one of the three implementing national societies to organise a meeting for all IARP partners in one of the programme countries (Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia). WHO IS IT…
510 FINDING IMPACT DATA IN HUMANITARIAN DOCUMENTS: MASTER’S THESIS ANNELIES RIEZEBOS
WHAT IS IT ABOUT Annelies’s thesis explores text mining techniques to recognise impact data in humanitarian documents. Annelies used over 700 documents from the Disaster Relief Emergency Fund (DREF) as examples of humanitarian data on which to test modelling techniques. She worked with a team to label sentences in those documents as containing impact data.…
510 TEXT MINING EXPLORATION FOR IMPACT DATA
At 510, we use impact based forecasting (IbF) to predict the impact of impending disasters on vulnerable people living in areas prone to disasters. In order to create a model that can make this prediction, we need detailed information on past disasters as well: when did they take place? Where exactly did they strike? And…
DATA SCIENTIST FOR IBF
WHO ARE YOU? You are a bright and creative Data Scientist, with a hands-on approach and strong technical skills who is interested in contributing to humanitarian data needs in Ethiopia/Kenya/Uganda/Mali & The Philippines. You will work from the Hague office but will be in contact with an international and multidisciplinary team, working closely together with…
510 & VANDERSAT
510 and VanderSat sign agreement to research the use of microwave measurements for Impact Based Forecasting WHAT: 510 and VanderSat signed a research agreement to pilot how satellite data-based recommendations can support flood and drought forecasting. The plan is to utilize VanderSat's Soil Moisture Monitoring, where sensors from space gather soil moisture conditions and…
PREDICTING FLOOD IMPACT IN MALAWI
I first came upon 510 when searching for a thesis subject. They had already worked on Priority Index Models (PIM ) for typhoons in the Philippines with a vision to do the same for all vulnerable communities across the globe. I have had an interest in humanitarian aid for a long time, specifically in potential applications…
DEVELOPING A PRIORITY INDEX FOR EARTHQUAKES
Identifying aid priority areas by learning from past events Written by Evelien Bulte 510 STUDENT GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SPECIALIST In the first few days following a severe earthquake there typically is a scarcity of reliable information about the impact on local communities. In this situation, decision makers of the humanitarian aid sector struggle to get an…
FASTER RESPONSE: WITH CAPACITY BUILDING PHILIPPINES PART 2
Written by 510 DISASTER INFORMATION MANAGEMENT EXPERT Rebecca Visschedijk. After our team member Jannis Visser was successfully deployed to the Philippines (see: FASTER RESPONSE: WITH CAPACITY BUILDING PHILIPPINES PART 1), there was a request for follow up Surge Information Management Support. This need had a different focus; where Jannis Visser had set up and processes…