Concept and methodology
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the humanitarian and development community of INFORM partnership expressed a need for analytical tool to monitor how the ongoing pandemic affects the existing risks of humanitarian crisis.
This report describes the INFORM Covid-19 Warning tool developed by JRC, the scientific and technical lead of INFORM. The objective of INFORM Covid-19 Warning is to identify, monitor and anticipate where Covid-19 could compound existing risks to cause new, or exacerbate existing, humanitarian crises. It aims to provide analysis that can be used to support decisions on preparedness and anticipatory action to mitigate the direct and indirect humanitarian impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic.
It essentially concerns the collection, aggregation and presentation of information about crisis risk that is dynamic rather than structural in nature. The INFORM Covid-19 Warning collects and presents risk trends, seasonal risks and severity trends. It compares them to thresholds to monitor how risks change in the short-medium term compared to the baseline. The tool has a global coverage with continuous automatic updates of data and results in a dashboard of information that shows how risk changes with time at the country level.
The INFORM Covid-19 Warning tool serves also as a case study for the conceptualisation of the INFORM Warning, one of the three main products of INFORM Suite, by piloting solutions that will be adopted in the main tool.
POLJANSEK Karmen;
VERNACCINI Luca;
DALLA VALLE Daniele;
ORENAIKE Oluwatosin;
GALIMBERTI Luca;
2022-01-05
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC126938
978-92-76-46338-2 (online),
978-92-76-46339-9 (print),
1831-9424 (online),
1018-5593 (print),
EUR 30950 EN,
OP KJ-NA-30950-EN-N (online),
OP KJ-NA-30950-EN-C (print),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC126938,
10.2760/61045 (online),
10.2760/809416 (print),
