Research & Assessment
Risk & Vulnerability Analysis
Vulnerability is specific: a flood-line settlement, a girls' school on an unlit road, daily-wage households one illness from debt. Naming who is exposed to what — precisely, respectfully, with evidence — is the first act of protection, and the foundation of our vulnerability-studies practice.
How we work
Hazard × exposure × capacity — measured, not presumed.
We assess three things together: the hazards present (environmental, social, safety, economic), who is actually exposed to each, and what coping capacity already exists. Fieldwork with vulnerable groups follows strict protocols — informed consent, safeguarding, women interviewing women, no identifying detail published — because analysis that endangers its subjects has failed before it is written.
- Hazard profiling: flood and slope risk, road safety, seasonal isolation, livelihood shocks, social threats including violence and exclusion
- Exposure mapping: which households, by location and social group, face each hazard — mapped and disaggregated
- Vulnerability scoring that weighs disability, gender, age, tenure security and income stability
- Coping-capacity review: existing schemes, community institutions, insurance and informal safety nets
- Child-protection and gender-based-violence risk screening for programmes touching those populations
- Mitigation matrix: ranked threats with the protective measures a programme must budget, not merely mention
- Safeguarding-compliant data handling throughout — anonymised records, consent artifacts, restricted access
Working with a population you cannot afford to put at risk?
Start with the analysis. Everything protective a programme later does depends on getting this layer right.
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