Damage Assessment for Community Resilience
Damage assessment is a crucial process for evaluating and mitigating the impact of disasters on communities. It involves preparedness, protection, prevention, and mitigation strategies to safeguard essential services and infrastructure. Establishing local planning teams, gathering information, and assessing damages are key steps in this process, along with conducting rapid and detailed assessments to inform response and recovery efforts.
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Preparedness: actions taken to plan, organize, equip, train to the security of the community Protection: capabilities necessary to secure critical infrastructure or key resources. It include border security, maritime security, transportation, immigration and cyber security. Prevention: necessary to avoid, prevent, or stop a threat. It include information sharing and warning Mitigation: reduce loss of life and property by lessening the impact of disasters.
Examples of public services: hospitals, police station, schools, community centres lifeline systems: potable water, oil/natural gas, electric power Transportation systems: airways , railways, waterways, mass transit High risk facilities: nuclear power plants, dams, military installations, chemical plants, industries These are the components necessary to the health and welfare of the population. The damage of these systems could have severe detrimental effects to the community. For example, bridge is damaged, then no one able to get the people affected.
Establish the local damage assessment planning team Gather information Determine plan components and assumptions Identify damage assessment zone Establish procedures for maintaining the plan
Flow of information Converting raw data to information Information input Sorting Evaluation Decision making Information output Action Level of assessment Rapid damage assessment: quick assessment of damage Detailed damage assessment: technical analysis of damage for long term rehabilitation
Name of the place The causative disasters Date and time Area affected Total number of villages affected Total population Details of local bodies In case of floods, area still under water In case of buildings damaged Estimated loss of property Closest emergency aid earthquake, source of
Verified number of human lives lost and number of injuries Livestock lost number estimated value Details of damage to crops House damaged or destroyed Loss to public works and utilities including local bodies property
In order to perform effective assessment we want to know various types of damage Types of damages damage to buildings damage to land(crops) impact on human lives(deaths) damage to livestock
Agencies ability to provide services The need for critical infrastructure repair/ restoration Socio-economic needs Planning priorities Resource allocation The need for mutual aid Mitigation opportunities Areas for program improvement Recovery priorities
Based on visual evaluations To be carried out by technical persons from the responsible departments Assessment procedure developed based on these considerations
Environmental impact assessment needs to consider the environmental and social impact of the disaster To be carried out over long term to quantitatively evaluate the impact
Repairs are based on technically detailed evaluation- method should be technically rigorous Initial damage assessment likely to be carried out by owners or users with limited technical skills
Damage assessment is an important tool for information regarding the extent of disaster s impact and form the basics of rescue and relief operations and recovery programs. Assessment of damage is required in terms of area covered, intensity of damage, households affected and finally all this converted in terms of economic loss.
