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Module Monitoring impacts and sensitivity

? Population affected by natural disasters (number of people affected by floods/ droughts/cyclones
per event, per year/period
? Infrastructure (lengths and types of road located on coasts being damaged by floods/ cyclones in
areas and per year/period)

? ? Land use (Percentage of changes in areas of forests/pastures/agricultural land, coastal areas)
9-12 December, 2013 ? ? ? Areas of rain-fed agriculture
Household size and types (Number of female-headed households)

Percentage of households below poverty

Diseases and health care delivery (number of people suffering from diseases, access to health care
- hospitals, mobile clinics by area)

Examples of indexes
? Human development index
? Social vulnerability index

? Environmental vulnerability index
? Coastal risk index

Figure 5 Example of an indicator development process from South Africa

Applicatio of
criteria

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3
Identification of Selection of a Categorization
a framework to broad set of of indicators into the
guide the draft indicators core set and
selection of other associated
draft indicators sets of indicators

Review of Consultation with
legislation key stakeholders
Source: IEA module 4

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