Guidelines and Lessons for Establishing and Institutionalizing Disaster Loss Databases

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Guidelines and Lessons for Establishing and Institutionalizing Disaster Loss Databases

September 1, 2015

This report documents the experiences of the UNDP Regional Programme on Capacity Building for Sustainable Recovery and Risk Reduction in implementing disaster loss databases using the DesInventar methodology.  The DesInventar is based on a relational database structure and a disciplined expert assisted structure for data collection and classification that permits the homogeneous capture, analysis and graphic representation of information on disaster occurrences and losses. 

This report is divided into four sections:

• The first section provides step-by-step guidelines for developing a disaster loss database, based on the RP’s experience.

• The second section identifies and documents the processes adopted in each of the tsunami affected countries during the implementation of the disaster loss database.

 • The third section discusses and draws key challenges, lessons and good practices from the implementation of disaster loss database in each of the tsunami affected countries.

 • The fourth section gives the background on UNDP and the RP, and discusses disaster loss  databases in the context of disaster risk reduction (DRR).