Post-Event Review Capability
Post-Event Review Capability
The award winning Post-Event Review Capability (PERC) methodology was created by Zurich Insurance to provide research and independent reviews of large flood events. It seeks to answer questions related to aspects of flood resilience, flood risk management and catastrophe intervention. It looks at what went well, as well as opportunities for improvement, and results in a set of recommendations for the future.
Use this page to learn about the PERC methodology, read full PERC reports or find specific recommendations.
Zurich focused its initial PERCs on floods because floods affect more people globally than any other natural hazard. However, the methodology can be applied to review and learn from other hazard events. We have recently applied it to study the growing peril of wildfires by reviewing the 2017-18 California fires.
Resilience Lessons from Cyclone Idai and Cyclone Kenneth
The tropical Cyclone Idai and Cyclone Kenneth weather systems, which made landfall in Southeast Africa in March and April 2019 respectively, brought catastrophic destruction and damage to communities across Malawi, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe. The widespread humanitarian disaster resulting from Idai and Kenneth emphasises the need to learn what happened during these events and what can be improved to reduce future risk.
All material from the PERC carried out in Southern Africa by Alliance partners ISET-International, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), Practical Action, and Zurich Insurance Group - and in collaboration with the Mozambique Red Cross and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) is available below, and on ISET-International’s dedicated PERC Idai and Kenneth page.
Using PERC methodology
The Post-Event Review Capability (PERC) is a systematic framework for the analysis of a disaster...
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PERC Recommendations
Search all the PERC recommendations produced in all PERC reports. Refine your search using the criteria on the left.
Total: 43 results found
Respond efficiently
Ensure communication with authorities to get updates and warnings well before a situation becomes critical....
Cross border cooperation between India-Nepal is crucial to saving lives in both countries.
Timely sharing of information and support in disaster response would significantly prevent losses. ...
Improved local government and community capacities are essential to effective response actions.
This also includes their access to information and resources from sub national, national and international communities. Devastating floods are not yet an annual occurrence however uncertainty is rising and investment rem...
Public awareness to take appropriate actions in time based on the early warning is essential with strong legal provisions.
Public, private and social media has crucial role and they played very active role in flooding in different ways. Most were active during and aftermath of disaster event. Media are potential for their critical roles and ...
Early warning systems need to be expanded to third order (seasonally flowing) rivers, with technological improvements to generate better forecasts from rainfall monitoring
DHM needs to improve its institutional capacity and expand its actions to monitoring rainfall monitoring and flood forecasting actions across the country in order to provide alerts to authorities for flood preparedness a...