Exploring an approach for monitoring the implementation of the European Union's disaster resilience goals : an options paper on the architecture and monitoring of the European Union's disaster resilience goals : JRC technical report

Decision No 1313/2013/EU, amended in March 2019 by Decision (EU) 2019/420, reinforces and enhances the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) and, as a consequence, results in the need for the Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC) to increase its monitoring, early-warning and analytical capacity. The close collaboration between the Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations and the Directorate-General Joint Research Centre has been recognised as a strategic pillar on which to build a bridge between research and operations and to translate the results of research projects into an improvement in the services provided by the ERCC in the context of civil protection and humanitarian aid operations. This report aims to explore potential concepts and architectures for the monitoring of the European Union's disaster resilience goals. The report focuses on three main areas: the use of the composite indicators approach for monitoring and review, an exploration of potentially relevant indicators of resilience within the context of the disaster resilience goals and (3) demonstration of the Disaster Risk Management Knowledge Centre Risk Data Hub as a repository for the data reported and collected to facilitate its interpretation via maps and dashboards. The main concept running through the three points above is the exploration of a monitoring framework based on two indicative parts: self-assessment indicators and independent indicators. Self-assessment indicators could be developed from the reports submitted by EU Member States and other participating states under Article 6 of the UCPM but also from other reporting mechanisms such as the national reports submitted on the implementation of national adaptation actions or surveys (e.g. Eurobarometer). Independent indicators could be provided from a range of credible publicly available sources or calculated from independent loss data. They would fit into existing theoretical frameworks of vulnerability and disaster resilience. This report was written during the drafting of the European Union's disaster resilience goals in 2021 and 2022. The Commission adopted the Commission recommendation of 8 February 2023 on Union disaster resilience goals.