Slideshow Transcript

1. Slide 1: InDisData in risk & vulnerability A tool to identify trends • A database of past disasters to understand trends and patterns of disasters. • A systematic geo-referenced inventory of small, medium and large-scale disasters for past 30 years. • To rationalize decision making for disaster preparedness, as well as providing an objective base for vulnerability assessment and priority setting. • To support planning & policy decisions for disaster preparedness and mitigation.
2. Slide 2: InDisData InDisData methodology includes two software modules DesInventar: • A relational database through which parameters like events, causes, data DesConsultar: sources, and effects are captured • A decision making tool which uses the DesInventar database to query and analyze the database through graphs, tables and thematic maps.
3. Slide 3: Orissa pilot Out comes & findings Last 32 years data collected for 30 districts and 314 blocks from media sources. Institutionalization with Government for sustainability. Interpretation and analysis of the data shows new dimensions of risk & vulnerabilities of the State. Orissa ‘Vulnerability Analysis Report’ is being prepared in association with ‘Center for Development Studies’.
4. Slide 4: Orissa- Outcomes Example Effect on Livelihood Effect on Lives lost •. The number of victims are higher during • Death due to epidemic is maximum floods in comparison to those under fire. followed by cyclone and drought. •Fire makes people more vulnerable in terms • Epidemics generally follow floods and of property and life but flood makes them more disastrous because of low economic more vulnerable in terms of livelihood, since level and accessibility of medical facilities. agricultural lands get inundated. And Orissa being a predominantly agricultural economy gets shattered in times of floods.