Information flow through the disaster circle

Maren Marie Egedorf; Pablo Villanueva Holm-Nielsen

Information flow through the disaster circle

Maren Marie Egedorf
, Pablo Villanueva Holm-Nielsen

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Abstract

The traditional view of the disaster circle is phase based. Disaster and development professionals recognize that the actions carried out in the various phases of the disaster management cycle are overlapping and build upon each other, having resilience as the overall goal. However information does not necessarily flow across the phases of the circle in an effective manner. This is particularly true for the information that crosses the disaster point of the circle.

Organisations carry out assessments, surveys and baselines for various purposes, at various points of time in the disaster circle. Output is communicated in long reports that are very time consuming to review. These
reports often contain information that is re-gathered in emergency assessments and don’t share the original data upon which conclusions were made.

The paper aims to identify information required to make informed decisions in response; describe how this information is gathered; analyze what information is available in previous phases of the disaster circle and to describe how that information can be shared and used in response design in an effective manner.

We suggest improved information sharing between the phases of the disaster management circle and organizations involved. This could be achieved through a platform that gathers and shares information from assessments and evaluations from previous phases of the disaster management circle.

A donor requirement for organizations to document how effectively they use existing information, and share
information created in a given project with later phases in the disaster circle, would be instrumental to
achieving this.

Original language	English
Publication date	10 Dec 2015
Number of pages	5
Publication status	Published - 10 Dec 2015
Event	NEEDS - København, København, Denmark Duration: 9 Dec 2015 → 11 Dec 2015

Conference

Conference	NEEDS
Location	København
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	København
Period	09/12/15 → 11/12/15

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