Regional Disaster Risk Assessment Guidelines

The Technical Regional Disaster Risk Assessment Guidelines is developed in the framework of the PPRD East3 Programme Work Package H on Risk Management Capabilities. PPRD East 3 aims to promote regional cooperation within the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM), in order to improve the Union's response to natural and man-made disasters.
The Guidelines explain the process to develop the National Disaster Risk Assessment: it provides a technical and structured approach for disaster risk assessment and a set of tools that can be adapted taking into account the specificities of the countries for further development of disaster risk assessment methodology at the national level. Specifically, the semiquantitative approach for the risk assessment is proposed, which allows to evaluate the risk also with limited quantitative data and to communicate efficiently the results for discussing DRR measures using the risk matrix.