Disaster Resilience and Recovery
The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Where Disaster Resilience and Recovery gets its data, on what terms, with what quality and with which known gaps.
The Disaster Resilience and Recovery source register lists the datasets and records the platform draws on, such as Sendai Framework Monitor and UNDRR Global Assessment Report, each with its producer, licence and permitted uses, quality and known gaps. A source is listed only once its terms permit the use described, and data held by agreement is used under those terms and never republished.
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For source and data register, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on true-colour imagery, population density and night lights with true colour from NASA GIBS, framed on the Philippines; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
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How the data reached the platform and what was changed.
What is missing and how the gap is handled.
| Source | What it gives | Terms | Used in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sendai Framework Monitor | National reporting against the seven targets and indicators | Public, UN terms of use | Risk reduction policy, Preparedness and continuity, Disaster loss accounting |
| Post-Disaster Needs Assessment reports | Damage, loss and recovery needs by sector for major disasters | Public, terms per publishing government and partners | Recovery and reconstruction, Disaster loss accounting |
| Anticipation Hub (German Red Cross, IFRC and Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre) | Map and documentation of anticipatory action frameworks and evidence | Public, terms to check | Anticipatory action |
| Copernicus Emergency Management Service damage grading maps | Satellite-based building damage assessment | Free, Copernicus terms | Recovery and reconstruction |
| DesInventar Sendai (UNDRR) | National disaster loss databases at local resolution | Open, terms per national database (to check) | Disaster loss accounting |
| Early Warnings for All initiative reports and country assessments | Progress on the four pillars of early warning | Public, terms per publishing agency | Early warning readiness |
| EM-DAT international disaster database (CRED, UCLouvain) | Events above thresholds with human and economic impacts | Free for non-commercial use with registration | Disaster loss accounting |
| EU Civil Protection Mechanism exercise reports | Multinational exercise programmes and lessons | Public, EU terms of use | Multi hazard exercises |
| GFDRR Disaster Recovery Framework guide and country recovery frameworks | Recovery planning and implementation practice | Public, World Bank terms (CC BY 3.0 IGO for many publications) | Recovery and reconstruction |
| Global Flood Awareness System and other forecast archives | Forecasts for trigger design and verification | Free, Copernicus terms | Anticipatory action |
| Global Human Settlement Layer (European Commission JRC) | Built-up area and settlement growth over time | Open, CC BY 4.0 | Risk reduction policy |
| Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction Views from the Frontline | Community perspectives on local risk and resilience | Public, terms to check | Community and local preparedness |
| Global status reports on multi-hazard early warning systems | Joint UNDRR and WMO assessment of early warning coverage | Public, UN terms of use | Early warning readiness |
| IFRC and national society post-event evaluations | How warnings were received and acted on | Public, terms per publisher | Early warning readiness |
| IFRC Disaster Law Database | Disaster risk management laws and policies by country | Public, IFRC terms (to check) | Risk reduction policy |
| IFRC DREF anticipatory pillar and early action protocols | Approved early action protocols and activations | Public, IFRC terms (to check) | Anticipatory action |
| IFRC GO platform | Emergency appeals, operations and preparedness information from Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies | Public, IFRC terms (to check) | Preparedness and continuity |
| IFRC Road Map to Community Resilience and community resilience measurement dashboard | Approach and tools for community resilience | Public, IFRC terms (to check) | Community and local preparedness |
| INSARAG guidelines and exercises | International urban search and rescue standards and exercise practice | Public, UN terms of use | Multi hazard exercises |
| IOM Displacement Tracking Matrix | Displaced populations, needs and returns | Public, IOM terms (to check) | Recovery and reconstruction |
| IRDR Peril Classification and Hazard Glossary | Standard hazard classes for loss recording | Public, IRDR terms (to check) | Disaster loss accounting |
| ISO 22301 and ISO 22313 | Requirements and guidance for business continuity management | Licensed standards, purchase required | Preparedness and continuity |
| National civil protection and emergency management plans | Published plans, roles and capacities | Public records, licence per government | Preparedness and continuity |
| National household and preparedness surveys | Household preparedness and risk perception | Licence per survey | Community and local preparedness |
| OCHA Financial Tracking Service | Humanitarian funding flows by recipient type | Public, UN terms of use | Community and local preparedness |
| OCHA Humanitarian Data Exchange | Shared datasets on emergencies, populations and logistics | Open, licence per dataset | Preparedness and continuity |
| Public expenditure and financial accountability reviews | Assessments of budget processes, including contingency and risk spending | Public records, terms per publisher | Risk reduction policy |
| ReliefWeb | Situation reports and recovery updates from many agencies | Public, terms per contributing organization | Recovery and reconstruction |
| Sendai Framework Monitor, target G | National reporting on early warning coverage, plans and risk information | Public, UN terms of use | Early warning readiness |
| Start Network Start Ready and Start Fund records | Risk pool and anticipation alerts from NGOs | Public summaries, terms to check | Anticipatory action |
| UN OCHA anticipatory action framework documents | Triggers, actions and financing of OCHA-facilitated pilots | Public, UN terms of use | Anticipatory action |
| UNDRR Disaster Resilience Scorecard for Cities | City self-assessment against the ten essentials | Public, UN terms of use | Community and local preparedness |
| UNDRR Global Assessment Report | Global analysis of disaster risk and progress on risk reduction | Public, UN terms of use | Risk reduction policy |
| UNDRR guidance on scenario-based exercises | Design guidance for preparedness exercises | Public, UN terms of use | Multi hazard exercises |
| US Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) | Exercise design and evaluation doctrine | Public domain, US government | Multi hazard exercises |
| WHO simulation exercise manual | Methods for planning, conducting and evaluating simulation exercises | Public, WHO terms of use | Multi hazard exercises |
| WMO Register of Alerting Authorities | Official alerting authorities and their alert feeds | Public, WMO terms | Early warning readiness |
Sources are added to the register as they are reviewed. A source is listed only once its terms permit the use described.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Provenance | Information about the entities, activities and people involved in producing a record, used to judge its quality and reliability, in the W3C PROV model. |
| FAIR principles | Guiding principles that make data findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable by people and machines. |
| Open licence | A licence that allows anyone to access, reuse and redistribute data, sometimes with attribution. |
| Data lineage | The traceable path of data from its origin through each transformation to its current form. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.