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Disaster Risk and Social Vulnerability · Ongoing

Socioeconomic Vulnerability Assessment: INFORMED Socio-Economic Vulnerability Index for Bhutan

Royal Government of Bhutan, DLGDM · Thimphu

Socioeconomic Vulnerability Assessment: INFORMED Socio-Economic Vulnerability Index for Bhutan

The challenge

Develop a Socio-Economic Vulnerability Index for Bhutan to inform disaster risk management and local governance decisions.

Methodology

National-level socio-economic data collection, field enumerator mobilization, multi-stakeholder validation workshops, development of standard operating procedures.

Outputs

Vulnerability index, methodological manuals and capacity-building materials.