The project Inclusive Disaster Resilience Index (INDRIX) held its final conference on 14 February. The project consortium and stakeholder representatives came together in Brussels to review the project’s results and make recommendations for follow-up steps.
Over the course of its two-year project timeframe, the EU co-funded project INDRIX developed an index of social resilience. A particular focus was on the needs of particularly vulnerable groups in case of disasters – such as the Elderly or people with disabilities. In this respect, the project was supported by Italian NGOs FISH and Auser.
The index was developed with a focus on community resilience, hence focusing first on available statistical data for standardised regional units (“NUTS2” level). The project also found this available data insufficient and, in some cases, too unfocused (no “NUTS3”, the next smaller level, data available) and thus developed a second part of the index that relies on survey data to fill in the gaps. The resulting information was then visualised using the so called “Indrix Resilience Map”, an easy to use graphical interface that lets interested parties explore the wealth of data brought together by INDRIX.
The dimensions identified as part of the index development were also used in the development of an additional questionnaire that aims at civil protection projects. With this additional questionnaire, project coordinators, or applicants, can check which aspects of resilience are most covered by their project or project idea. Conversely, it also shows the aspects of resilience not considered. This can be a tool for project development and evaluation – particularly in combination with the identified regional weaknesses in resilience via the first and second part of the index.
As a conclusion to the project, the consortium presented several recommendations and possible follow-ups. These also included the need to improve the availability of statistical data, as only systematic surveying of all aspects of disaster resilience can offer complete comparability across Europe. In particular, data relevant for people with disabilities in disaster situations was lacking.
The project consortium is considering options to continue their work in a follow-up project.



The consortium of the project INDRIX (Inclusive Disaster Resilience Index) held its last workshop in Palermo from 14-16 December. They took stock of the work done in the previous two years and prepared the final result and recommendation document. The final document is planned to be presented in Brussels at the final conference of the project on 13-14 February.
The INDRIX project developed an index of social resilience, with a particular focus on vulnerable groups such as elderly people or people with disabilities. It uses statistical data but also data collected by questionnaire. It allows for regional or municipal assessment of resilience but also has a variant that enables civil protection projects to check if they are covering essential aspects of fostering resilience.
As the meeting coincided with an assembly of the ANPAS regional committee of Sicily, the INDRIX group also took the opportunity to discuss the project with the civil protection stakeholders that had come to Palermo for that meeting. This was a prime opportunity to work on an aspect of resilience that came up time and time again during the work of the project – inclusion of civil society and volunteering organisations, and consequently citizens, in prevention work.
From 27-28 August, the project met in Riga, Latvia. Together with invited stakeholders, they worked on a revised questionnaire for data acquisition in preparation of the creation of the final resilience index later this year.
Besides the work on the index and accomanying tools and methods, the project group also consulted with local stakeholders about the civil protection system and measures to improve resilience in Latvia.

From 17-19 October 2016, the consortium of the INDRIX project met in Hamburg to work on their inclusive resilience index. The index will help to assess the resilience-related properties of communities and civil protection projects, with a special focus on the resilience of vulnerable groups and their inclusion in civil protection processes.
The project will also develop a technical tool to visualize the current resilience of communities and the contributions of civil protection projects to resilience. This software will be developed by the project’s technical partner Ubilabs, who also hosted the event. At the workshop, the participants from SAMARITAN INTERNATIONAL member organisations
From 6-8 June 2016, the partners of INDRIX (Inclusive Disaster Resilience Index) met in Bolzano, Italy for their second meeting. They discussed resilience and inclusion criteria for the resilience index which the project is developing.
After the first meeting, the partners invited several additional stakeholders to share their expertise, particularly with regard to the inclusive dimension of the project. In Bolzano, Fabrizio Maddalena from 







