Usability of existing global and national data for flood related vulnerability assessment in Indonesia.

Public climatic data are rapidly growing in volume and complexity at global and national scales but these data remain underutilized for vulnerability assessment. We aim to explore how flood records from Dartmouth Flood Observatory, a global flood monitoring database, can be linked with a national disaster database maintained by the Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management, to aid local vulnerability assessment in Indonesia. We focused on physical damage to structures and agricultural crops from flooding and examined spatiotemporal patterns of a vulnerability metric derived from principal component analysis.

Validation of the INDDEX24 mobile app . a pen-and-paper 24-hour dietary recall using the weighed food record as a benchmark in Burkina Faso.

Effective nutrition policies require timely, accurate individual dietary consumption data; collection of such information has been hampered by cost and complexity of dietary surveys and lag in producing results. The objective of this work was to assess accuracy and cost-effectiveness of a streamlined, tablet-based dietary data collection platform for 24-hour individual dietary recalls (24HR) administered using INDDEX24 platform . a pen-and-paper interview(PAPI) questionnaire, with weighed food record (WFR) as a benchmark.