Within Flood Risk Management Information System (FRMIS) Yemen is a web-based platform developed by HKV for UNESCO. FRMIS Yemen focusses on the information provision on flood risk related issues.
Climate change compounded with years of political instability have exposed communities in Yemen to extreme weather conditions and natural hazards. Flooding is the most prevalent natural hazard in the country. Particularly in the past three years (2020-2022), flooding has caused population displacement, the collapse of houses, the spread of diseases and economic losses requiring urgent humanitarian interventions. Sana’a and Shibam, two historic cities in Yemen, have been significantly impacted due to the fragility of building materials used in cultural heritage buildings which require periodic maintenance that has been suspended by the conflict’s impact on the local communities resulting in an increasing rate of collapse and causalities during the past three years.
FRMIS Yemen is a web-based bi-lingual (English-Arabic) platform hosted in Yemen. Showing flood risk information, real-time measurements and impact based forecasts as well as a section to analyze damages and losses of past (flood related) events.