PAUWES Data Portal
Event database for droughts and floods in Burkina Faso, Benin and Ghana for various years (2001-2014)
Collection of national and local level records on past flood and drought events. Most Information is on flood events, because drought data was not provided. There are gaps in the records. For several years there are only very few entries depending on the countries.
The database exists in two parts. This part deals with the information collected directly within the countries from the national disaster management authorities and agricultural ministries (CONASUR, NADMO, ANPC and MDGLAAT).
All available information that was recorded was included. For some entries, event-specific information could be included while for others aggregated information per year or per quarter of a year was used (not event-specific). A working paper documents the content and results of both event databases, the open source data event database and the local data event database. The three maps on (i) flood affected people, (ii) flood affected houses, and (iii) flood affected crops are drawn to illustrate the content of the database in an aggregated manner.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2015-03-08T00:00:00
- Edition
- Version 1.0
- Presentation form
- Digital table
- Purpose
- To provide a database on past flood and drought events and their impacts. In existing global databases, only large-scale events with significant impacts are captured. This database tries to shed light on more local-level, including smaller-scale events. The data were used to validate the risk profiles derived in WP 5.1
- Credit
- Credit goes to the field assistants who have facilitated access to the responsible authorities and the authorities themselves for providing their information. The upload of this database will be discussed with the WASCAL CoC when this will be handed over at the risk assessment implementation workshop.
- Status
- On going
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
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- hazards
- affected people
- GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
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- flood
- drought
- disaster
- agricultural production
- infrastructure
- Region
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- Benin
- Burkina Faso
- Ghana
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
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Data sharing rights not yet clarified and data base will be handed over to the WASCAL CoC with the objective to validate with main input providers whether these data can be shared.
Please contact Distributor for further questions.
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Begin date
- 2001-01-01
- End date
- 2014-12-31
- Supplemental Information
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Variables captured in the database are listed in the following.
Hazard related Information:
Event data (start and end date)
Date of records
Type of hazard
Intensity
Spatial extent
First subnational level
Second subnational level
Third subnational level
Communities, Villages
Surface inundated
Affected People:
Number of affected households
Number of affected people
Number of injured
Number of killed
Agricultural Impact:
Cropland destroyed
Lost production
Lost animals
Affected infrastructure:
Houses
Stocks
Schools
Other infrastructure (Latrines, dams, bridges, roads etc.)
Value of losses
Value of lost agricultural plant production
Value of lost animals
Value of lost infrastructure
Estimated total costs
Information on data source
- Distribution format
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MS Access
(
2013
)
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MS Access
(
2013
)
Distributor
- Ordering instructions
- Not yet available. For further questions ask the distributor directly.
- OnLine resource
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WP5_1_UNU_Event-Database_FINAL.accdb
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Database (MS Access)
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
- The data hasn't been modified as it was provided by the official Disaster Management Authorities. Quality checks were made in a sense that summations were checked. When several Excel tables were available, we always used the most complete one. We observed a couple of entries that seemed incorrect but didn't correct for them.
- Description
- No processing done.
- File identifier
- 8cae76c1-d2b4-4343-ae9e-fa09d507db25 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2016-08-31T15:34:54
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 1.0
Overviews
Spatial extent
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