Technical Assistance Report for the Evaluation of the Effects of Hurricane Mitch in Honduras, 17 Nov - 8 Dec, 1998

PRESENTATION

DesInventar is a disasters Inventory System designed by researches of The Social Studies Network for Disasters Prevention in LatinAmerica - LA RED. La Red as an inflow of the International Decade for the Reduction of Natural Disasters, declared by The United Nations. It s objective is to store and homogenize the information of small, medium and big disasters in a data bank and has many tools for the consultation of information:

-A question generator to the data bank through which a user can specify the disasters he/she wants to consult.

-A graph generator which basic objective is to give the researcher a temporary vision of the frequency of the disasters.

-A Geographical Generator through which it gives a distributive vision of the data and an intuitive access tool to the data bank through a map.

-A Statistic Generator to obtain different level totals and grouped in different ways.

DesInventar is a proved product and solid disaster inventory, prospective and retrospective. Its potential users are the countries and their institutions for civil protection and planification like organisms from local and international scales.

COPECO started to formally use DesInventar in March of this year when La Red made a visit that included a capacitation workshop.