Trainings dedicated to the DesInventar Sendai system and organized by CIMA Research Foundation as part of the project Strengthening disaster resilience and accelerating implementation of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in Central Asia 2019-2022, funded by UNDRR and on which CIMA Research Foundation and Asian Disaster Preparedness Center (ADPC) are collaborating to strengthen disaster loss data collection systems in five Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan), ended in July.
DesInventar Sendai is an open source software designed for the systematic collection, documentation, and analysis of damage and human and economic loss data that enables analysis of disaster trends and impacts across a wide range of sectors and socioeconomic dimensions.
In June and July 2022, we organized three in-person trainings, each lasting two days, for the use of the system in three of the countries involved in the project (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Tajikistan) and dedicated to different actors in the field of civil protection: heads of disaster risk management departments, staff of information and analysis divisions, statistical officers, representatives of monitoring and forecasting departments, and GIS experts.
The main objectives of the training were to strengthen the capacity of disaster risk managers and technical staff in recording and analyzing data in the DesInventar Sendai system and to present the system’s functionalities (with a special focus on the inventory system and indicators for monitoring the Sendai Framework). In addition, during the two-day training, participants had the opportunity to test the functions of the DesInventar Sendai system with regard to data entry (using data on past disasters in countries), data editing, and the functions of the analysis module for representing information in the form of charts, graphs, thematic maps, and tables.
“These trainings are a key moment of the activities we are carrying out in Central Asia,” explains Laura Rossello and Tatiana Bedrina, two main experts of the project from CIMA Research Foundation. “In fact, our goal is to integrate DesInventar Sendai into the disaster management offices of the nations involved, so comprehensive trainings represent an essential step. The DesInventar Sendai data collection system will support countries in reporting for the Sendai Framework Monitor platform, which allows progress to the Sendai Framework goals”.