QUANTITATIVE INDICATORS FOR MULTI-HAZARD COMMUNITY RESILIENCE ASSESSMENT OF INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS

60% of people in Latin America live in informal developments located in non-inhabitable geographic spaces. For example, in Lima, 70% of the houses are informal, meaning they must comply with seismic design standards or have technical supervision. During past events such as earthquakes and heavy rains, it has been identified that more than 80% of its population is highly vulnerable. Given the need to mitigate future consequences, indicators have been proposed in the literature to assess community resilience. However, no studies operationalize resilience at the systemic and community level considering the participation of stakeholders and the use of innovative conceptual frameworks, such as non-structural measures. For this reason, this study proposes quantitative indicators for multi-hazard community resilience assessment as a tool for developing monitoring, follow-up, and evaluation of disaster risk management in informal settlements. The choice of indicators is subject to the intrinsic characteristics of the community and the availability of information to calculate them. In this way, an innovative, collaborative tool is proposed to facilitate decision-making for risk managers and public policymakers. As part of the procedure, the quantitative measurement of the indicators includes all the stakeholders involved in risk reduction, especially end-users. The methodology was applied to a case study to demonstrate its usefulness in strengthening the governance of disaster risk to manage it, one of the priorities of the Sendai Framework. The procedure was applied to the case study of the stream El Pedregal, an informal settlement in Lima, and considered one of the critical points of most significant risk in the face of hydrometeorological hazards, such as the El Niño phenomenon. The community resilience assessment of the stream was made up of 15 quantitative indicators divided into the following categories: physical/environmental, economic, and social/institutional. As a result, it was obtained that the level of community resilience in the El Pedregal stream is high.