Flood resilience measurement for communities (FRMC)
Creator: Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance
Type of methodology: On-line data collection
Approach type: CRR (Climate Resilience Rating)
Short description: Hybrid: Indicator-based methodology, building on online and offline data collection, incl. web-based tool
URL to access information about the tool: https://floodresilience.net/frmc/
Hazards covered: Floods
Audiences: Civil society
Assessment level: Community-level
Evaluation system:
Resilience rating: letter-grading system (A-D) and score (0-100) for each of the sources of resilience + a comprehensive score for the project
Strengths:
- Very comprehensive list of indicators, looks into different aspects of resilience
- Takes community resilience/human factor into account
Limits:
- Not specific to buildings
- Only looking into one hazard
- Not "open-source": people need to apply to use the framework
- On-the-ground data collection can be burdensome
Under the FRMC, the assessment of resilience is based on community data collection (mixed data collection methods, based on context) on a set of 44 indicators, called "sources of resilience". After data is collected on the app, it is uploaded to the web application, and trained assessors grade each of the 44 sources of resilience on an A–D scale (A being best practice, D being poor). Each source of resilience is then scored based on the assigned grade (from 0 to 100).
