Evaluation method and tools for disaster risk reduction

Disasters, having serious negative consequences, have been an invariable companion of mankind during the various epochs of its development. From ancient times to the present day, people’s quest to explain the natural elements has been unceasing and, depending on the accumulated experience and knowledge, on the stage of development of technique and technology, to search for, discover, and apply ways to successfully oppose them.

Evaluation methods and tools for disaster risk reduction are based on the comparative analysis and the report elaborated. An assessment tools for evaluating the level of disaster risk reduction measures in the specific State context is elaborated. The innovative element could be found in the common framework for designing, developing, implementing, and monitoring the effectiveness of sustainable disaster risk reduction solutions considering the specifics of the regional, national and local context. Disaster risk is most detailed at a micro-social or territorial scale. As we aggregate and work at more macro scales, details are lost. However, decision-making and information needs at each level are quite different, as are the social actors and stakeholders. This means that appropriate evaluation tools are necessary to make it easy to understand the problem and guide the decision-making process. It is fundamentally important to understand how the vulnerability is generated, how it increases, and how it accumulates.

Performance benchmarks are also needed to facilitate decision-makers’ access to relevant information as well as the identification and proposal of effective policies and actions.

Disaster risk reduction requires local-level action. Most disasters are small-scale and local. To be relevant and effective criteria and indicators for the disaster risk reduction solutions used in educational curricula need to be adapted to local contexts. Many smaller local governments lack the capacity to plan land use and development, let alone ensure that these are risk-sensitive. Many countries report the need to strengthen local capacities however, despite the devolution of responsibility for risk management common to many countries it is unclear how national-level policy is really supporting local-level decision-making. So that the criteria would be more general providing the indicators for disaster risk reduction measures and procedures and their adjustment to the local context.

Ten criteria with corresponding indicators for disaster risk reduction

• Criterion for assessing a country’s disaster risk reduction capacity (CDRRC)
• Criterion for assessing the economic resilience (ER) of a country to disaster risk reduction
• Criterion for assessingthe direct population vulnerability (DPV) to natural disasters in threatened areas
• Criterion for assessing the socio-economic vulnerability of the population due to natural disasters
• Criterion for assessing the public resilience to natural disasters
• Criterion for identifying the risk for the population due to natural disasters
• Criterion for assessing the measures to reduce the economic, social and ecological impacts of natural disasters
• Criterion for assessing the capacity of the responsible institutions for naturaldisaster risk management
• Criterion for assessing the institutional govermence and financial protection of society for disaster risk reduction
• Criterion for assessing the scientific and technological capacity of the state to disaster risk reduction