Risk of humanitarian crisis: INFORM’s new mid-term update
INFORM products support decision-making on humanitarian crises and disasters, contributing to decisions at different stages of the disaster management cycle, specifically climate adaptation and disaster prevention, preparedness and response. A new mid-term update includes changes in indicators and the addition of new ones.
Updates to INFORM’s operational products
INFORM suite includes three operational products; INFORM Risk, INFORM Severity and INFORM Climate Change, while INFORM Warning is in development.
INFORM users include organisations from the humanitarian and development sector, donors, and technical partners. The World Bank, the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs or the OECD are some notable examples.
These users – and everyone else looking for a global tool to understand the risk of humanitarian crises and disasters – can now use an updated version of INFORM Risk product. It now uses +80 indicators to measure hazards and the population exposed to them, vulnerability and the resources available to help people cope.
New and updated indicators lead to new risk scenarios
The INFORM Risk Index creates a risk profile for every country with scores for risk assessment and all components ranging between 0 and 10
In this new version of INFORM Risk 2023, the formulas to calculate indicators such as urban population growth, mortality rate under-5, humanitarian aid (FTS), development aid (ODA), people affected by disasters, internally displaced persons, refugees and asylum-seekers by country of asylum, among others, have been updated.
When comparing the numbers from INFORM Mid 2023 with the previous ones it is still to note that Risk in Nigeria increased due to increases in floods, storms, droughts and epidemics. The same is true for Türkiye because of the rise in the number of people affected by and internally displaced by the earthquakes. The flash floods and tropical cyclones also increased the risk score in Dominican Republic.
Other comparisons and/or different data retrievals and analyses can be done through the INFORM webpage.
