A FSC dashboard is an infographic summarising the FSC response implemented during a given period. It represents data by objective and it shows progress in terms of beneficiaries assisted, the funding situation, number of FSC partners. It usually includes a map of the country with a gap analysis or partners’ presence.[1]
Types, means, methods or approaches used to provide assistance to beneficiaries. Three most common resource transfer modalities are food in-kind, vouchers, and cash-based transfers (CBTs).
Is the amount of food energy needed to balance energy expenditure in order to maintain body size, body composition and a level of necessary and desirable physical activity consistent with long-term good health. This includes the energy needed for the optimal growth and development of children, for the deposition of tissues during pregnancy, and for the secretion of milk during lactation consistent with the good health of mother and child.[2]
A serious disruption of the functioning of a community or a society at any scale due to hazardous events interacting with conditions of exposure, vulnerability and capacity, leading to one or more of the following: human, material, economic and environmental losses and impacts.[3]
The organization, planning and application of measures preparing for, responding to and recovering from disasters.
Annotation: Disaster management may not completely avert or eliminate the threats; it focuses on creating and implementing preparedness and other plans to decrease the impact of disasters and “build back better”. Failure to create and apply a plan could lead to damage to life, assets and lost revenue.
Emergency management is also used, sometimes interchangeably, with the term disaster management, particularly in the context of biological and technological hazards and for health emergencies. While there is a large degree of overlap, an emergency can also relate to hazardous events that do not result in the serious disruption of the functioning of a community or society.
A qualitative or quantitative approach to determine the nature and extent of disaster risk by analysing potential hazards and evaluating existing conditions of exposure and vulnerability that together could harm people, property, services, livelihoods and the environment on which they depend.[4]
Systematic process of using administrative directives, organizations and operational skills and capacities to implement strategies, policies and improved coping capacities (UNISDR 2009) in order to address all aspects of emergencies or response to shocks and crisis, by establishing the who, how, when and where of the preparedness to the likelihoods of looming shocks, the response and the initial recovery measures.[5]
FAO considers 3 main categories of shocks for risk reduction and crisis management:
• Natural hazards and climate related disasters;
• Food chain crises;
• Conflicts and protracted crises.
DRR involves actions aimed at reducing (prevention and impact mitigation) the risk of a disaster to occur by analysing and addressing the root causal factors of risks of disasters and crisis, including through reduced exposure to hazard, lessen vulnerability of people and property, wise management of land and the environment, as well as improved preparedness for the response to adverse events (UNISDR 2009). DRR entails the prevention and mitigation of, and preparedness for, disasters, within the broader concept of sustainable development.[6]
Humanitarian approach aimed at ensuring that humanitarian agencies avoid unintended negative consequences in any situation in which they operate in order to avoid the risk that the humanitarian response further endangers affected persons and undermines communities’ capacities for peace-building and reconstruction.[7]
An entity that gives financial or in-kind resources to another entity to implement activities; a donor can be a government, an organization or a private individual. Donors can also implement activities directly.
Drought[8]is generally defined as an extended period - a season, a year, or several years - of deficient precipitation compared to the statistical multi-year average for a region that results in water shortage for some activity, group, or environmental sector. Drought can be defined according to meteorological, agricultural, hydrological, and socio-economic criteria:
§ Meteorological, when precipitation departs from the long-term normal;
§ Agricultural, when there is insufficient soil moisture to meet the needs of a particular crop at a particular time. Agricultural drought is typically evident after meteorological drought but before a hydrological drought;
§ Hydrological, when deficiencies occur in surface and subsurface water supplies;
§ Socio-economic, when human activities are affected by reduced precipitation and related water availability. This form of drought associates human activities with elements of meteorological, agricultural, and hydrological drought.
[1]For example of dashboard see here: http://fscluster.org/south-sudan-rep/document/south-sudan-fsl-c-gap-analysis-map
[2]Source: For a more detailed description please refer to http://www.fao.org/docrep/007/y5686e/y5686e04.htm#bm04
[3]http://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/terminology#letter-d
[4]https://www.unisdr.org/we/inform/terminology#letter-e
[5]https://www.unisdr.org/files/7817_UNISDRTerminologyEnglish.pdfand http://www.fao.org/resilience/areas-of-work/en/
[6]https://www.unisdr.org/who-we-are/what-is-drr
[7]Do No Harm handbook, November 2004
[8]Source: For a more detailed description please refer to http://www.fao.org/docrep/017/aq191e/aq191e.pdf