Data
An assessment is only as good as its inputs. These are the eight categories of data the process relies on, and the honest position on which of them this platform can and cannot supply.
This platform does not host Philippine agency datasets. It explains what data is needed and which kind of institution normally issues it. Obtain the actual data from the agency concerned or through your provincial and regional planning offices.
Establish baseline climate and projected changes over the plan period.
Sourced from the national or regional agency with the mandate for this data, and from your own local records. This platform lists no figures of its own for this category.
Define where each hazard can occur and how severe it can be.
Sourced from the national or regional agency with the mandate for this data, and from your own local records. This platform lists no figures of its own for this category.
Validate hazard maps against what has actually happened locally.
Sourced from the national or regional agency with the mandate for this data, and from your own local records. This platform lists no figures of its own for this category.
Count who is exposed and identify groups needing particular attention.
Sourced from the national or regional agency with the mandate for this data, and from your own local records. This platform lists no figures of its own for this category.
Show what activities occupy each area today and what is planned.
Sourced from the national or regional agency with the mandate for this data, and from your own local records. This platform lists no figures of its own for this category.
Identify networks whose failure would cut off services.
Sourced from the national or regional agency with the mandate for this data, and from your own local records. This platform lists no figures of its own for this category.
Locate facilities that must keep working during and after an event.
Sourced from the national or regional agency with the mandate for this data, and from your own local records. This platform lists no figures of its own for this category.
Account for ecosystems that both face risk and buffer against it.
Sourced from the national or regional agency with the mandate for this data, and from your own local records. This platform lists no figures of its own for this category.
Every value in a risk assessment should be traceable to one of these. Mixing them up is how an assessment loses credibility at review.
Official
Issued by a government agency. Identified by agency and linked to the agency's own publication. Nothing on this platform substitutes for the original.
Demo
Invented for teaching. Everything in the demo municipality falls here, and it is labelled as demo data wherever it appears.
User-uploaded
Data an LGU would bring in itself once workspaces exist. Provenance stays with the LGU that supplied it.
Derived
Calculated from other data — a risk class computed from hazard and exposure inputs. Always traceable to the inputs it came from.
CDRA Philippines is an independent educational module of SmartCity.ph. It is not an official application of DHSUD, USAID, PAGASA, or any other government agency, and it is not endorsed by them. Official documents referenced here identify their issuing agency and link back to the original source. All municipal figures, maps, and risk scores shown in the demo are fictional.