United Nations
International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
Disaster Inventory Management System: DesInventar
TRAINING AGENDA
Day 1. General Concepts and Introduction to Disaster data analysis
9:00 –9:10Workshop Opening
9:10–9:20Goals and objectives of the workshop
9:20 –10:00Introduction to Disaster theory
10:00–10:15 Tea/ Coffee Break
10:15 –10:45General Background
Hyogo Framework for Action
Risk Assessments
National Disaster Databases and Inventories
10:45 – 11:30 Presentation of the Global Assessment Report GAR
11:30–11:40Introduction to DesInventar
The basic Disaster Data Card
Data Collection Methodology
11:40 – 12:45Fundamentals of DesInventar Methodologies
Common concepts and Definitions
Geography
Events & Causes
Effects
Recommendations & How To’s
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 14:15 Overview of DesInventar Server system: Environment, modules, tabbed interface
14:15 - 14:30The Analysis module “DesConsultar”: overview
14:30 - 16:45. Working with and interpreting Country Profiles(Preliminary Analysis Methodology)
-Composition analysis
Tea/ Coffee Break
-Temporal Analysis
-Spatial analysis
-Statistical summaries
Brief presentation of Analysis Methodologies:
Preliminary Analysis Methodology
Intensive/Extensive Risk Analysis (Global Assessment Report)
Historical Risk Index Methodology
Empirical Loss Exceedance curves
Day 2. Detailed analysis of Disaster data
9:00– 9:30. The Query Window and Basic Query Results (“View Data”)
9:30- 9:45 The Map Window
Zooming and Selecting
Considerations about the Mapping functionality of DI Server
Obtaining maps for DesInventar
9:45– 12:30 Charting results
Composition Analysis: comparatives
Tea/ Coffee Break
Temporal Analysis: Histograms (simple, geographical, by event)
Seasonal Charts
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30Thematic Mapping
Spatial Analysis
Types of legends
Automated Generation of Ranges
Variables
14:30 – 14:45 Report Generation (Exporting data to excel)
14:45 – 15:15 Statistics Generation
Totalization levels
Statistical measures
Crosstabs
15:15 – 15:30 Tea/ Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:45 Practice with Analysis tool (DesConsultar Module)
Case studies with Nepal/Mozambique/Mali databases
Day 3Data entry process
9:00 – 9:15DesInventar Server Admin Screens: introduction
9:15 – 10:00 Events Management
Causes Management
Geography
Levels
Maintenance
Maps
Baseline data
10:00– 10:15Tea/ Coffee
10:15– 11:15DataCard operations: data entry, adding editing and deleting data cards
Query Screen in Edit mode
Quality control techniques
11:15 – 12:00 Detailed DesInventar Methodology
Catalog of events
Causes
Effects
Data Sources
Validation
Disaggregation
Long duration Events
Good practices (metadata, etc.)
12:00- 12:30Introduction to Extension of Data Cards
Variables
Tabs
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 Practice session/ Visit to information/data archive.
16:00 – 16:30 Wrap-up and concluding the Group Training
List of materials disseminated during the workshop
(Available in Arabic and English) and online at and
- Concept Paper: Building Disaster Inventories
- Methodology: Building Disaster Inventory through DesInventar
- User-Manual for DesInventar and DesConsultar Software
- Installation Guide DesInventar Server 9
- Configuration Guide DesInventar Server 9
- USB with DesInventar Server Software (Versions 9.12) and soft copies of the above documents
- PowerPoint DesInventar Presentation
- PowerPoint Training Guidelines
OPTIONAL: Day 4 System administration (Project team and national coordination focal points)
9:00 - 9:30 Installation and basic configuration of a DesInventar Server
9:30 – 10:00 General Administration
Region Management
System Parameters
Data import:
Importing data from DesInventar MS Access databases
Importing data from other DesInventar regions (consolidation)
Importing data from Excel
Importing/Exporting data in XML format
- 10:00 – 10:30 Security
- Definition of Users
- Privilege levels
- Permissions
- 10:30 – 11:15 Maintenance perspectives
- New versions
- Bug reporting
11:15 – 12:00 Update, Monitor and Coordination
12:00 – 13:00Next steps and plan forward
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