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Disaster Analyst

What is the Disaster Analyst?
The Disaster Analyst is an online data and information system that provides basic information on disasters losses. Besides supplying technical support and information services to the international disaster risk reduction community, the Disaster Analyst functions also as a public platform to share knowledge, skills and experience in collecting historic loss data, establishing disaster observatories and applying disaster knowledge in decision making.

What are the key components of the Disaster Analyst?
Catalogue (DisDat)
An online information system for inventorying disaster loss databases at all levels (global, regional, national, and local). It provides a comprehensive catalogue of existing disaster databases including standardized information on contents, time periods covered, major data sources, contact information and links to access the data.

Disaster profile
A characterization of the disasters a country or region has experienced within a given timeframe. It describes systematically the disasters and losses in terms of characteristics, severity, spatial/temporal distribution, and causality. Analytical functions, such as basic statistical and time-series analyses, are available to facilitate the production of essential facts about disasters.

Disaster update
A series of analytical functions to track changes in disaster characteristics, trends and patterns, and to identify the driving factors of those changes. Findings and results of these analyses will be communicated through a regular-reporting mechanism.

Disaster Observatories network (DO-net)
A public platform for the community of countries and institutions around the world implementing Disaster Observatories (DO). Here, they can exchange knowledge, skills, experiences, good practices, and lessons learned in building Disaster Observatories. It is also a platform for the DO community to work together on standards and protocols, quality control mechanisms, interoperability, and data visualization.

Applications
A repository of tools, guidelines, methodologies and examples on the applications of disaster analyses in the areas of risk assessment, disaster risk management, strategic development planning, programming, policy making and disaster risk reduction monitoring, among other applications.

Data sources
A comprehensive online gateway to major sources of disaster loss data such as ECLAC, OCHA, IFRC, NGOs, media archives and others. Through the necessary institutional arrangements, this gateway provides access to past disaster data from multiple information systems. Powerful searching functions let users find information on past disasters available in several sites and integrate it using appropriate criteria.
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What services does the Disaster Analyst deliver?

With the support of a dedicated Community of Practice, the Disaster Analyst delivers the following main services:
  • Information services that support building country and regional disaster profiles;
  • Technical support for the collection and analysis of disaster loss data, establishment of disaster observatories and applications in disaster risk reduction practices;
  • Generation of new knowledge and methodologies.
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How are the services delivered?
Disaster Analyst will deliver its support and services through the Regional Technical Support Centres and a community of practice for capacity development.

At the regional level, in each region, established organizations working in disaster risk reduction and risk assessment will be identified by GRIP to be part of Regional Technical Support Centres.

A community of practice is a group of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly.
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