Caribbean regional workshop on DELTA Resilience System and the Sendai Framework Monitor

Countries in the Caribbean are increasingly exposed to multi-hazard risks, including climate-induced disasters and slow-onset processes. Reliable, standardized, and interoperable disaster-related data are essential for disaster risk reduction (DRR), climate action, and risk-informed sustainable development as emphasized by the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030 (Sendai Framework).

Recognizing the diverse challenges faced by countries in disaster related data management, analysis and use for resilience building, this regional workshop aims to build capacities on tracking losses, identify technical assistance needs, raise awareness on enhanced tools, standards and frameworks and advance planning for countries to establish their own country institutionalized Disaster Tracking System powered by DELTA Resilience. This workshop is organized by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) under the Climate Risk and Early Warning Systems (CREWS) initiative.

To support countries in this endeavor, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR), in collaboration with partners, has developed the Disaster & Hazardous Events, Losses and Damages Tracking & Analysis (DELTA Resilience) system. The tracking system leverages experience on supporting country-owned loss databases enabled by the open-source and methodological toolkit Desinventar.net which enabled over 110 country-owned, sub-nationally disaggregated disaster loss databases to be maintained since the 1990s. To respond to emerging needs, leverage technology innovations and support larger data applications and use cases, an enhanced system has been developed in close collaboration with data users, producers and other regional and international organizations who work on specific thematic or sector issues. Partner UN entities have supported advancing data standards, metrics and methods for different types of losses and impacts, including IOM for disaster displacement, FAO for agri-food, UNEP and UNU-EHS for biodiversity and ecosystem services losses, etc.

Objectives

• Raise awareness: on the relevance of tracking hazardous events and disaggregated (e.g. by hazard, sex-, age-, disability) disaster impacts, and of enhancing disaster-related data and official statistics production, management, analysis, and use.
• Disaster data application and policy alignment: Identify use cases of disaster data for countries and explore how DELTA Resilience can support national applications for risk-informed planning, preparedness, early warning and early action, recovery, financing and reporting requirements under the Sendai Framework and SDGs.
• Strengthen national capacities to understand and apply methodological guidance on hazardous event cataloguing, hazardous event-impact data linkages, losses and damage data collection and assessment.
• Build skills in data ecosystem and data maturity self-assessments to utilize the matrix and toolkit for understanding strengths and gaps.
• Data integration: Discuss strategies for integrating DELTA with existing national data systems to enable evidence-based decision making.
• Facilitate peer learning on data collection, management, and analysis across government institutions, sectors, and expertise domains.
• Global reporting obligations: understand alignment of national disaster data systems with global reporting obligations (Sendai Framework, SDGs, Global Goal on Adaptation).