What is DesInventar?

Until the mid-1990’s, systematic information about the occurrence of daily disasters of small and medium impact was not available in Latin America, nor in the Andean Sub-region. From 1994, the creation of a common conceptual and methodological framework was begun by groups of researchers, academicians, and institutional actors linked to the Network of Social Studies in the Prevention of Disasters in Latin America (Red de Estudios Sociales en Prevención de Desastres en América Latina - LA RED). These groups conceptualised a system of acquisition, consultation and display of information about disasters of small, medium and greater impact, based on pre-existing data, newspaper sources and institutional reports in nine countries in Latin America. The developed conceptualisation, methodology and software tool is called Disaster Inventory System - DesInventar (Sistema de Inventario de Desastres DesInventar).

The development of DesInventar, with its conception that makes visible disasters from a local scale (town or equivalent), facilitates dialogue for risk management between actors, institutions, sectors, provincial and national governments.

DesInventar is a conceptual and methodological tool for the construction of databases of loss, damage, or effects caused by emergencies or disasters. It includes: methodology (definitions and help in the management of data) database with flexible structure; software for input into the database; software for consultation of data (not limited to a predefined number of consultations) with selection options for search criteria.

For more information:

Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2011 - GAR 2011

Inventory of losses for Latin America, Asia and Africa

In this place are available the historical inventories of losses that are begin used in the project "Analysis of extensive risk".a component of the Global Assessment Report of Dissater Risk Reduction, 2011.

The losses that were registered in the inventories are mainly associated with geological phenomenon, metereological and fires.

The objetive of this project is to provide inputs for the Global Assessment Risk Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2011 of the International Strategy for the Reduction of Disasters (ISRD). Eight databases are from Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, México, Panamá, Perú y Venezuela), seven from Asia (Jordania, Indonesia, Irán, Nepal, Orissa-India, Tamil Nadu-India y Sri Lanka) and one from Africa (Mozambique) that were built both by governamental and non governamental institutions.

The very first results of this project wered published in 2009 (ISDR,2009), an approach to extensive risk analysis in countries of Latin America (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, M´xico, Perú y Venezuela) and five of Asia (Iran, Nepal, Orissa-India, Tamil Nadu-India y Sri Lanka)

This report can be consulted at http://www.preventionweb.net