Author: United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Year of publication: 2017
Available languages: English, Arabic, Bengali, Bosnian, Burmese, Chinese, French, Italian, Korean, Mongolian, Polish, Portugese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish
Type of assessment: Comprehensive impact and risk assessment
Details: The tool provides a set of assessments to allow local governments to monitor and review progress in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for DRR and assess disaster resilience
Format of assessment: Web tool
Details: Offers an excel tool and a guideline based on question indicators which are all scored indivdually. The questions are based on the UNDRR's ten essentials for making cities resilient
Estimated costs for conducting: The excel tool is for free. No information on research costs
Estimated duration of assessment: Several months, but it is mostly based on multi-stakeholder experiences or workshops
To be carried out by whom: Government representatives
Details: It is made to support local governments (cities)
Institutional scale of use: Local/community
Details: Cities
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Local decision makers
Output: Excel sheet
Details: The tool itself is an excel sheet including a scorecard to easily summarise all data. All findings are summarised in a report
Region of origin: Europe
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: No information
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Not sector specific
Details: It is a participatory process involving as many stakeholders as possible from all sectors
Method used: Mixed method approach
Description of methodology: This is a rather qualitative approach. It is supplemented by the Quick Risk Estimation tool (QRE) to consider risk.
Risk framework used: Broad risk mapping according to different definition
Details: Conceived as disaster risk only, which can be estimated via a QRE tool by combining probability and severity of expected / witnessed impacts
Risk components incorporated: All
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: Flood, Wildfire, Storm, Sea level rise, All hazards
Details: Overall consideration of all kinds of man-made and natural hazards, climate change impacts, environmental degradation
Source of required data: Primary and secondary
Details: Mostly interviews. This method is based on stakeholder exercises and workshops. Also includes variety of secondary information e.g. plans, survey data from various institutions
Temporal scale: Current, Forward looking
Participatory elements: Partly
Details: Engagement of private sector stakeholders and incorporation of public opinion is encouraged but not necessary
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Yes
Details: Deals with frequent interactions between chronic stresses (climate change, sea level rise, envrionmental degradation, social, economic, cultural stress) ad acute shock events (natural or man-made disasters)
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts
Details: The major aim is an assessment of disaster resilience
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Economic
Details: No clear mention of considerations of non eocnomic loss
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): Yes
Details: Calls it chronic stresses and accute shocks
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: No
Usefulness for political purposes: Based on key Sendai Framework targets and indicators
Applied by whom: Not specified
Open access: Yes