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	Community Disaster Resilience Index	Sendai Framework Indicator Monitoring
Field	Disaster Studies	Disaster Studies
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	2012	2015
Originator	Jonas Joerin, Rajib Shaw, Yukiko Takeuchi & Ramasamy Krishnamurthy	United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
Type	Survey-based weighted composite index of community resilience	Indicator-based monitoring framework for global disaster-risk-reduction targets
Seminal source	Joerin, J., Shaw, R., Takeuchi, Y., & Krishnamurthy, R. (2012). Action-oriented resilience assessment of communities in Chennai, India. Environmental Hazards, 11(3), 226-241.	United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (2015). Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030. UNDRR, Geneva.
Aliases	CDRI, Climate Disaster Resilience Index, Community Resilience Index	Sendai Framework Monitor, Disaster Risk Reduction Target Monitoring, Sendai Indicators
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Summary	The Community Disaster Resilience Index (CDRI) is a survey-based, multi-level composite-index method for assessing the resilience of communities to disasters, developed in the action-oriented form by Jonas Joerin, Rajib Shaw, Yukiko Takeuchi, and Ramasamy Krishnamurthy and applied in Chennai, India. CDRI decomposes resilience into a hierarchy: a small set of dimensions (commonly physical, social, economic, institutional, and natural), each split into parameters, each measured by several variables scored on a Likert scale. Variables are combined into parameter scores, parameters into dimension scores, and dimensions into an overall index, with weights typically elicited from stakeholders or experts. Unlike secondary-data indices, CDRI is built to be participatory and diagnostic — its purpose is to reveal which dimension of resilience is weakest in a given community so that action can be targeted there.	Sendai Framework indicator monitoring is the standardized methodology by which countries measure progress in reducing disaster risk under the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, adopted by United Nations member states and coordinated by UNDRR. The framework sets seven global targets — reducing disaster mortality, the number of affected people, direct economic loss, and damage to critical infrastructure and basic services, while increasing national and local risk-reduction strategies, international cooperation, and access to multi-hazard early warning. Progress against these targets is measured through 38 agreed indicators, populated from national disaster loss databases and policy records, normalized where appropriate by population or GDP, and compared against a 2005-2015 baseline. Reported through the Sendai Framework Monitor, the system makes disaster-risk reduction measurable and comparable across countries and links directly to indicators of the Sustainable Development Goals.