Osuteye, E; Johnson, C; Brown, D; (2016) The data gap: An analysis of data availability on disaster losses in sub-Saharan African Cities. (Urban ARK Background Paper 11). Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK)

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This paper examines the availability of data on disaster losses in urban areas in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and what this data tells us. Following the introduction, section two reviews the concept of disaster losses,and examines how they are used by the major databases. Sections three to sevenlook at the different kinds of data sets available—section three examines the extent to which the major disaster databases capture the effects of different disaster events and section four uses the DesInventar database to analyse losses in major urban centres of SSA. Section five overviews other databases and data sources from the health sector that could shed light on everyday risks and endemic health related losses and section six presents data sources on disaster losses compiled by humanitarian agencies in select SSA city case studies. Section seven and eight conclude by examining the key limitations of the databases and data sources reviewed, and by identifying potential areas of interestsforurban researchers. This paper has been written as a background paper for the Urban ARK programme.

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