Arab States accelerate disaster loss and damage data: Regional rollout of DELTA Resilience launched in Doha
Doha, Qatar: 29–30 October 2025. Eighteen Arab Member States and 35+ national experts convened in Doha for the Regional Workshop on DELTA Resilience (Disaster & Hazardous Events, Losses and Damages Tracking & Analysis), co-organized by UNDRR Regional Office for Arab States (ROAS) and the Government of Qatar. The two-day workshop kicked off the regional rollout of DELTA Resilience, an enhanced disaster tracking system designed to help countries generate, manage, and apply high-quality data on hazardous events, losses, and damages.
Why it matters
Strengthening disaster-related statistics is central to the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030. DELTA Resilience enables countries to understand impacts across sectors and population groups, informing risk analysis, risk-informed planning and investment, preparedness and early action, resilient recovery, and reporting under Sendai Framework Monitoring (SFM) and related SDG indicators.
“Reliable, disaggregated disaster data is not a luxury; it is the backbone of prevention and the compass for risk‑informed investment. With DELTA Resilience, we are moving from isolated incident logs to an interoperable, country‑owned evidence base that connects national systems to Sendai reporting and crucially to decisions on preparedness, early action, resilient infrastructure, and recovery financing. When data is accessible, timely, and inclusive capturing geography, sector, sex, age, and disability, we can protect development gains and scale what works across the Arab region.” Said Dr. Raidan Al Saqqaf, Deputy Chief, UNDRR ROAS.
From DesInventar to DELTA Resilience
Building on the long-standing, country-owned loss databases enabled by DesInventar.net, DELTA Resilience leverages new technology and expanded methods co-developed with data users and producers. Partner UN entities have advanced data standards, metrics, and methods for sector-specific impacts including IOM (disaster displacement), FAO (agri-food), UNEP and UNU-EHS (biodiversity and ecosystem services) to support interoperable, multi-sector analytics.
Who joined
National DRR Focal Points; National Statistical Offices; Ministries of Environment (climate); Civil Protection; National Hydro-Meteorological and Geological Services; Geospatial, Cartography Institutes; Public Health Institutes; and other stakeholders from across the Arab region.
What happened over two days
- Day 1: Understanding the relevance and approaches: Sessions covered Arab country experiences, internationally recognized methodologies, disaster impact statistical frameworks, hazard and sector-specific approaches (e.g., biodiversity, agriculture, displacement), data standards and models, and a live software demonstration of DELTA Resilience covering data entry, validation, querying, and visualization.
- Day 2: Data readiness, hands-on training, and national planning: Participants used a Data Ecosystem Maturity Assessment to identify governance, standards, infrastructure, and capacity gaps; explored interoperability with national systems; reviewed use cases (preparedness and early action, resilient infrastructure planning, recovery planning, finance tracking, and reporting); discussed case studies; and drafted country action plans.
Expected outcomes
- Capacity enhanced: Participants acquire practical skills to operate and manage DELTA Resilience in national contexts.
- Action plans drafted: Country-specific roadmaps for institutionalizing the Disaster Tracking System, outlining roles, capacity needs, priority use cases, and technical assistance requirements.
- Improved data governance: Stronger multi-sector collaboration for accurate, timely reporting of losses and damages to inform decision-making and contribute to regional/global monitoring.
- Strengthened networks: An emerging Arab regional community of practice for ongoing support, experience-sharing, and collaboration on disaster data management.
What’s next
UNDRR ROAS will continue technical support to participating countries to:
- Align DELTA–SFM interoperability with national reporting workflows.
- Integrate DELTA Resilience with national statistical and geospatial systems.
- Advance priority use cases identified by countries (e.g., early warning and early action, resilient infrastructure planning, recovery planning, and finance tracking).
- Facilitate peer-learning within the region’s practitioner network.
About DELTA Resilience
DELTA Resilience is an enhanced, interoperable disaster tracking system that supports country-owned management of hazardous event, loss, and damage data enabling disaggregated analysis (e.g., geography, sector, sex, age, disabilities) for evidence-based decisions across risk reduction, preparedness, early action, recovery, financing, and reporting.