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Next-generation disaster losses tracking system to be delivered in 2023

Dan SymondsBy Dan SymondsDecember 7, 20224 Mins Read
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Three UN agencies have committed to developing a new and improved system for tracking the impact of climate-related disasters as part of a global loss and damage fund to aid developing countries. The fund was one of the major outcomes from COP27 in Egypt.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) committed to a consultative process which will see the new system in place next year with a prototype ready for testing by April 2023.

Animesh Kumar, head of the UNDRR Bonn Office, said, “There is a critical need to develop a next-generation hazardous events and disaster losses and damages tracking system building on existing systems such as DesInventar which has been in place since 1994.

“Key issues identified included breaking down data silos across sectors and greater inclusion of the private sector. Much more focus is needed on disaggregation of data including by gender, sex, age and disability if we are to have a true picture of how disasters are affecting vulnerable communities,” he said.

The potential new system was discussed at a two-day technical forum which brought together over 100 disaster managers, meteorologists and development experts from some 40 countries and 50 international organizations.

“This is an exciting and ambitious project,” Kumar continued. “As part of this roadmap, the three organizations will consider all the recommendations made at the forum, and also publish a think-piece, including a framework for capacity development to guide future discussion.’

The development roadmap includes six regional ‘kick-off’ meetings to be organized next year by the WMO, upon approval of the cataloguing of hazardous events in March 2023, in collaboration with UNDP and UNDRR which will bring together national disaster management offices and national meteorological and hydrological services.

Petra Stöckl, deputy head of the UN Bonn Liaison Office for the German Federal Foreign Office, said, “Disaster risk reduction finds itself at the center of some of today’s most important debates. That losses and damages arise from disasters is indisputable. Tracking of losses and damages is hence not only important for compensation, but also to have a scientific basis to build our policies.”

Participants discussed the current systems to track disaster losses and damages, in particular, the DesInventar (www.desinventar.net). With technical assistance from UNDRR and UNDP, 110 UN member states now have national disaster loss databases. Several countries presented their current system of tracking hazardous events and disaster impacts.

Other disaster impact recording databases were also discussed including the International Disaster Database (EM-DAT) of the Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters, the Global Crisis Databank of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, the Risk Data Hub of the European Commission.

Risk data aggregators like the Risk Information Exchange (RiX) by UNDRR and the GeoData Hub by UNDP were also presented.

Participants agreed to build off a widely used losses and damages tracking system like the DesInventar, and the WMO-led cataloging of hazardous event, but with the need to address three critical data parameters to be able to systematically record and track hazardous events and losses and damages: data governance, data standards and data architecture.

Prof. Virginia Murray, head of global disaster risk reduction, UK Health Security Agency, said, “The adoption of a set of indicators to monitor the Sendai Framework and the Sustainable Development Goals, associated statistical methodologies, and the launch of hazard classification and profiles, are important elements to enhance the data standards to better track losses and damages.”

Connecting data collection and analytical products with end use and effective action was considered a critical component of the process. Participants highlighted the need for better understanding of the extent and dimension of losses and damages in the context of assessing progress in resilience-building, to inform the UN’s ‘Early Warnings for All’ initiative, and to calibrate risk models for risk-informed planning and decision-making.

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