Assessing the potential of a Child-Centered Risk Assessment tool
UNDP Cape Verde
UNICEF and CSF travelled to Cape Verde to discuss the potential of a Child-Centered Risk Assessment system, an information management tool to analyze the vulnerability of children across the country.
Children are a society’s most vulnerable group, but their needs differ significant across age, gender, geography, and socioeconomic status. A CCRA system supports data collection and analysis to understand the variable impact of climate and other hazards on the development of children. By assessing how socioeconomic and development data interact with information on climate risk and other hazards, the tool can help to operationalize risk-informed planning for development in high-hazard areas.
Cape Verde uses DevInfo to support a uniform statistical reporting and analysis system countrywide, and in 2016 invited UNICEF DRR to conduct a training on the CCRA system to representatives of all major ministries and many local NGOs, with the support of technology partner CSF. The five-day training and planning session presented the principles of disaster risk reduction and risk-informed planning, and discussed how to assess risk using data on child vulnerability, government capacity, and exposure to / probability of climate events (including floods, flash floods, storms and cyclones). The session also gave participants hands-on experience with the software to demonstrate its power to support analytics.
Cape Verde uses DevInfo to support a uniform statistical reporting and analysis system countrywide, and in 2016 invited UNICEF DRR to conduct a training on the CCRA system to representatives of all major ministries and many local NGOs, with the support of technology partner CSF. The five-day training and planning session presented the principles of disaster risk reduction and risk-informed planning, and discussed how to assess risk using data on child vulnerability, government capacity, and exposure to / probability of climate events (including floods, flash floods, storms and cyclones). The session also gave participants hands-on experience with the software to demonstrate its power to support analytics.