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Disaster-related displacement and middle-income countries Figure 20. Data on the number of disasters and overall people affected comes from CRED EM-DAT. Data on IDPs was provided by IDMC, based on its report Global Estimates 2015: People displaced by disasters. GDP per capita was retrieved from the World Bank’s ‘World Development Indicators Database’. The percentage of urban population was calculated by dividing estimates on the total number of urban dwellers by total population, based on data from the UN Statistics Division’s Demographic Statistics ‘Population by sex and urban/rural residence’. Data on urban population was not available for the Philippines and only for certain years for India. When comparing the number of people affected with the number of IDPs in India in 2012, there is a statistical anomaly in that it is the only year where the proportions are inverted (i.e., more people displaced than affected). This could be due to the different methodology employed in data collection by IDMC and CRED EM-DAT. Excluding this statistical anomaly, the trend remains that in general, there are more people affected than displaced per country per year.
The impact of explosive weapons on civilian populations The use of improvised explosive devices Figures 21 and 22. Explosive weapons include manufactured ordnance such as aircraft bombs, mortars and rockets, as well as improvised explosive devices (IEDs). These infographics are based on data recorded by Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) between 2011 and 2014. During this period, AOAV recorded the impact of explosive weapons around the world using English language media sources. No claims are made that this data reflects every casualty or incident of explosive violence, but it reflects general trends and contexts in which civilians have been most at risk. AOAV uses an incidentbased methodology adapted from the Robin Coupland and Nathan Taback model. Data on explosive violence incidents is gathered from English-language media reports on the following factors: date, time and location of the incident; the number and circumstances of people killed and injured; the weapon type; the reported user and target; the detonation method and whether displacement or damage to the location was reported. The narrow focus and methodology of AOAV’s explosive violence monitoring mean that its civilian death and injury figures may be lower than the overall figures published by other agencies, such as the Office of the High
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Commissioner for Human Rights. Comprehensive details about AOAV’s methodology are at https://aoav.org.uk/ explosiveviolence/methodology/.
Innovative tools for data coordination and collection Figure 24. Digital responders have worked over the past year, often behind the scenes, to support the Ebola response in West Africa. Their efforts span data collection, map development, translations, emergency telecommunications and analysis, to name a few areas. A full storyboard highlighting the work of Digital Humanitarian Network-affiliated member organizations, while working towards disease elimination, is available here: http://digitalhumanitarians.com/DHNEbolaStoryboard/. OCHA hosts the OCHA KoBoToolbox server, https://kobo.humanitarianresponse.info. Software development and technical administration are managed by the KoBoToolbox project at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Statistics on user accounts, number of deployed projects and data submissions are counted as of 14 August 2014 based on server database figures. Figures are as of 30 June 2015. The statistics do not include projects or data deleted by users and are thus slightly lower than the actual number.
Social media and humanitarian disasters: Typhoon Ruby Figure 26. Source maps for geo-location of damage can be found here: http://maps.micromappers.org/2014/hagupit/ tweets/ and http://maps.micromappers.org/2014/hagupit/ images.
Perceptions about humanitarian action Figure 27. Data is derived from the World Humanitarian Summit surveys conducted globally for diaspora, youth, and civil-military actors, and regionally for the WHS preparatory consultation for Eastern and Southern Africa; Europe and Others; Latin America and the Caribbean; Middle East and North Africa; South and Central Asia; and West and Central Africa.