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Rapid fragility assessment tool

Tool for considering security, social, political, economic and environmental fragility

2015 Available in English

Computer screen showing the fragility assessment spreadsheet.

Fragility looks at the combination of risk to a particular community or location and the capacity of the people in that community or location to cope with those risks should they become reality.

This tool is a spreadsheet that you can quickly complete to make a rapid assessment of fragility across five dimensions: security, social, political, economic and environmental.

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