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IGOPP

Low

Outstanding

DDI

1

1 < Without deficit

> 1 With deficit

LDI

High

Low

Concentration of disasters

PVI

Low

High

RMI

Low

Optimal

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IGOPP

Index of Governance and Public Policy in Disaster Risk Management

DDI

Disaster Deficit Index

PVI

Prevalent Vulnerability Index

LDI

Local Disaster Index

RMI

Risk Management Index

IGOPP

The iGOPP is a composite index made up of six subindices pertaining to each DRM reform component: General Framework of Governance for DRM (GF), Risk Identification and Knowledge (RI), Risk Reduction (RR), Disaster Preparedness (DP), Post-Disaster Recovery Planning (RC), and Financial Protection (FP). All DRM components have equal weight.

Additionally, the iGOPP can be broken down into five subindices related to the phases of public policy: Central Policy Coordination and Articulation subindex (1A), Definition of Sectoral Responsibilities subindex (1B), Definition of Territorial Responsibilities subindex (1C), Evidence of Progress in Implementation subindex (2), and Monitoring, Accountability, and Participation subindex (3). All public policy phases have equal weight.

The iGOPP (and each subindex) can be divided into cells, which are the result of the interaction between DRM reform components and public policy phase. Each cell can be identified by a DRM reform component prefix and a public policy phase suffix. For instance, cells GF-1A and GF-2 correspond to the respective interaction between the Central Policy Coordination and Articulation and Evidence of Progress in Implementation phases, with the General Framework of Governance for DRM. In total, the iGOPP is comprised of 241 binary indicators.

The index scoring ranges from 0 to 100 and uses the following classification system:

IGOPP rank
0% (minimum) to 100% (maximum)
	91-100%	Outstanding
	71-90%	Very good
	41-70%	Good
	21-40%	Incipient
	0-20%	Low

DDI

The Disaster Deficit Index (DDI) evaluates the relationship between the economic losses that a country may suffer as a result of a catastrophic event and the resources that such country would need for emergency response and recovery.

A DDI greater than 1 means a government lacks financial resources to deal with large-scale disasters, even when it maximizes its debt. The higher the DDI, the larger the deficit.

DDI rank
0% (minimum) to 100% (maximum)
	0.0 - 0.2	Outstanding
	0.2 - 0.5	Very good
	0.5 - 0.7	Good
	0.7 - 0.9	Incipient
	0.9 - > 1	Low

PVI

The Prevalent Vulnerability Index, PVI, characterizes a country's existing vulnerability conditions in terms of exposure in disaster-prone areas, socio-economic fragility and limited resilience capacity. These items provide a measure of direct as well as indirect and intangible impacts of hazards.

The PVI score varies from 0 to 100. A value over 80 reflects very high levels of vulnerability; a score between 40 and 80 indicates high levels of vulnerability; a value between 20 to 40 specifies average levels of vulnerability, while a score of 20 or lower shows low levels of vulnerability.

PVI rank
0% (minimum) to 100% (maximum)
	91-100%	Outstanding
	71-90%	Very good
	41-70%	Good
	21-40%	Incipient
	0-20%	Low

LDI

The Local Disaster Index, LDI, is an index that represents the propensity of a country to experience small-scale disasters and their cumulative impact on local development. The index attempts to represent the spatial variability and dispersion of risk in a country resulting from small and recurrent events. This approach is concerned with the national significance of recurrent small-scale events that rarely enter international, or even national, disaster databases, but which pose a serious and cumulative development problem for local areas and, more than likely, also for the country as a whole.
The LDI captures simultaneously the incidence and uniformity of the distribution of local effects. That is, it accounts for the relative weight and persistence of the effects attributable to phenomena that give rise to municipal scale disasters.

A low LDI value (0-20) means a high concentration of small disasters in few municipalities and a low spatial distribution of their effects between the municipalities where they have taken place. Medium LDI values (20- 50) shows a small disaster concentration and distribution of their effects are intermediate; high LDI values (from 50 onward) indicate that the majority of municipalities suffer small disasters and their effects are similar in all affected municipalities. High values reflect vulnerability and hazards are generalized in the territory.

LDI rank
0% (minimum) to 100% (maximum)
	91-100%	Outstanding
	71-90%	Very good
	41-70%	Good
	21-40%	Incipient
	0-20%	Low

RMI

The Risk Management Index, RMI, evaluates a country’s performance in disaster risk management. The RMI comprises four components: Risk Identification (RI); Risk Reduction (RR); Disaster Management (DM); and Financial Protection (FP).

The RMI score ranges between 0 and 100, where 0 represents the lowest performance score and 100 is the highest attainable score. The higher the RMI score, the better the disaster risk management performance of a country.

RMI rank
0% (minimum) to 100% (maximum)
	91-100%	Outstanding
	71-90%	Very good
	41-70%	Good
	21-40%	Incipient
	0-20%	Low

About RiskMonitor

Riskmonitor is a digital tool developed by the Inter-American Development Bank to further the understanding of disaster risk and the advancement of disaster risk management for member countries of Latin America and the Caribbean.

RiskMonitor Indicators

Riskmonitor is comprised of five indicators that measure disaster risk and its management at the national level, over time, for all IDB member countries. These indicators further the understanding of essential aspects of disaster risk and its management from a range of perspectives, encompassing normative, institutional, budgetary, territorial, social, economic, financial, and public policy dimensions.

Results

Riskmonitor provides results of these five indicators, assessed periodically since 2005, for the 26 IDB member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.