From: Can severity of a humanitarian crisis be quantified? Assessment of the INFORM severity index
GCSI Latent Constructs | Indicators | Definition | Type of Indicator | Frequency of Collection |
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Impact of the Crisis | Landmass affected - absolute | Total number of square kilometers affected by the crisis | Crisis | N/A |
Landmass affected - relative | Percent of square kilometers affected by the crisis | Crisis | N/A | |
People living in the affected area - absolute | Total number of people living in the affected area | Crisis | N/A | |
People living in the affected area - relative | Percent of people living in the affected area | Crisis | N/A | |
People affected - absolute | Total number of people affected by the crisis | Crisis | N/A | |
People affected - relative | Percent of people affected by the crisis | Crisis | N/A | |
People displaced - absolute | Total number of crisis related displaced people | Crisis | N/A | |
People displaced - relative | Percent of crisis related displaced people | Crisis | N/A | |
aNumber of people ill | Total number of crisis related ill people | Crisis | N/A | |
bNumber of people injured | Total number of crisis related injured people | Crisis | N/A | |
cNumber of fatalities | Total number of crisis related fatalities | Crisis | N/A | |
Complexity of the Crisis | Corruption perception index | The CPI scores and ranks countries/territories based on how corrupt a country’s public sector is perceived to be. It is a composite index, a combination of surveys and assessments of corruption, collected by a variety of reputable institutions. | Non-crisis | Yearly |
Rule of law (WGI) | Rule of law, a variable included in the Worldwide Government Indicators (WGI) captures perceptions of the extent to which agents have confidence in and abide by the rules of society, and in particular the quality of contract enforcement, property rights, the police, and the courts, as well as the likelihood of crime and violence. | Non-crisis | Yearly | |
Rule of law (BTI) | The Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) analyzes and evaluates the quality of democracy, a market economy and political management in 129 developing and transition countries. It measures successes and setbacks on the path toward a democracy based on the rule of law and a socially responsible market economy. It also entails an evaluation of the rule of law including the separation of powers and the prosecution of office abuse. | Non-crisis | Every 2 years | |
Freedom in the World | Freedom in the World is Freedom House’s flagship annual report, assessing the condition of political rights and civil liberties around the world. It is composed of numerical ratings and supporting descriptive texts for 195 countries. | Non-crisis | Once (in 2017) | |
Total killed in all crisis | Number killed in the crisis affected area in the last three months | Crisis | N/A | |
Conflict intensity | The HIIK’s annual publication Conflict Barometer describes the recent trends in global conflict developments, escalations, de-escalations, and settlements. | Non-crisis | Yearly | |
Gender inequality | The Gender Inequality Index (GII) reflects gender-based disadvantages in three dimensions—reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market. The value of GII range between 0 to 1, with 0 being 0% inequality, indicating women fare equally in comparison to men and 1 being 100% inequality, indicating women fare poorly in comparison to men. | Non-crisis | Yearly | |
Income gini coefficient | Gini index measures the extent to which the distribution of income or consumption expenditure among individuals or households within an economy deviates from a perfectly equal distribution. A Gini index of 0 represents perfect equality, while an index of 100 implies perfect inequality. | Non-crisis | Yearly | |
Ethnic fractionalisation | Ethnic fractionalisation Index is calculated using a simple Herfindahl concentration index from Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) Dataset. | Non-crisis | Yearly | |
Size of excluded ethnic groups | The Minorities at Risk (MAR) project monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in all countries. The focus of the MAR project has been “minorities at risk. | Non-crisis | Once (from 2004 to 2006) | |
Empowerment | This is an additive index constructed from the Foreign Movement, Domestic Movement, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly & Association, Workers’ Rights, Electoral Self-Determination, and Freedom of Religion indicators. It ranges from 0 (no government respect for these seven rights) to 14 (full government respect for these seven rights). | Non-crisis | Yearly (1981-2011) | |
BTI - Democracy status | The Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) analyzes and evaluates the quality of democracy, a market economy and political management in 129 developing and transition countries. It measures successes and setbacks on the path toward a democracy based on the rule of law and a socially responsible market economy. It also entails an evaluation of the rule of law including the separation of powers and the prosecution of office abuse. | Non-crisis | Every 2 years | |
Crisis affected groups | Number of different types of affected population groups, based on categories of the IASC Humanitarian profile COD 2012. The final value represents a count of types of affected group, at the lowest level of the humanitarian profile page 5 of the document. | Crisis | N/A | |
Impediments to entry into country (bureaucratic and administrative) | This indicator refers to the general access of international actors into the country. It refers to registration, accreditation and visa policies, provision of taxes or fees on activities or goods; policies related to import and logistics; visa or accreditation delays or denial; discretional registration or visas by authorities, and presence of humanitarian organisations and workers in the country being allowed to operate. | Crisis | N/A | |
Restriction of movement (impediments to freedom of movement and/or administrative restrictions) | This indicator refers to the in-country mobility of humanitarian workers in order to reach the affected population and transport relief items. It includes presence of taxes and fines on passage of goods and people, quotas and limits on relief items in specific areas, assistance seized, agencies on hold despite being ready to intervene, checkpoints, or closure of border crossings. | Crisis | N/A | |
Interference into implementation of humanitarian activities | This indicator refers to factors such as conditions imposed on the type of aid, or the modality of aid delivery. It includes operational restrictions imposed by government as well as confiscation or diversion of aid. | Crisis | N/A | |
Violence against personnel, facilities and assets | This indicator takes into account security incidents involving humanitarian organisations. Incidents include attacks, abduction, execution, kidnapping of workers, and looting of humanitarian warehouses or humanitarian assets. | Crisis | N/A | |
Denial of existence of humanitarian needs or entitlements to assistance | This indicator takes into account statements that demonstrate a recognition or denial of needs of a population or the rights of minorities, and any discrepancy between the reported humanitarian needs and official statements. | Crisis | N/A | |
Restriction and obstruction of access to services and assistance | This indicator refers to the affected population’s perspective. It assesses whether people are prevented from reaching aid or services – through various restrictions, such as prevention of the crossing of borders to seek refuge, administrative barriers, or requirements to have specific documents. Sieges, roadblocks, curfews, and harassment are be considered. | Crisis | N/A | |
Ongoing insecurity/hostilities affecting humanitarian assistance | This indicator takes into account the presence of ongoing hostilities or violence that affects humanitarian operations, leading to decisions to divert or suspend aid, or to evacuate or modify operations. | Crisis | N/A | |
Presence of mines and improvised explosive devices | This indicator looks into how the presence of landmines or Unexploded Ordnance (UXOs) might hinder humanitarian access. | Crisis | N/A | |
Physical constraints in the environment (obstacles related to terrain, climate, lack of infrastructure, etc.) | This indicator looks into seasonal events or weather conditions as well as preexisting infrastructure. Status of roads, bridges, and airfields are also considered, along with communications and logistical constraints such as lack of fuel or assets hampering physical accessibility to people in need. | Crisis | N/A | |
Conditions of the Peopled | Total People in Need | The total number of people in need in each crisis. The total number of people in need equals the sum of people experiencing moderate, severe, and extreme humanitarian conditions. | Crisis | N/A |
Current humanitarian conditions of total population in the affected area | The conditions and status of the people affected, including information about the distribution of severity (i.e. the number of people in each category of severity within a crisis). The humanitarian conditions severity is distributed in 5 levels, each of them is defined separately. | Crisis | N/A |