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Kalutara Living Lab

MOBILISE 3.0:

Digital Toolset for Building Resilient Communities
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Early Warning System:

Changing peoples lives
Kalutara Living Lab

Challenges

Data-driven Decision Support
Multi-Agency Collaboration
Resilience and Adaptation
Community Engagement
Impact-based Early Warnings

At present, important climate and disaster risk data is scattered across many agencies. As a result, it is difficult for government agencies, both at the national and local level, to compile relevant intelligence, necessary for building community resilience against climate change and issuing effective early warnings.


    The project will address the following challenges:
  • Lack of shared data platform for local level decision-makers and the public to collaborate in building resilience against climate change;
  • Lack of data-driven decision Support Systems for local authorities in implementing a participatory approach to building local resilience;
  • Ability to forecast climate hazards and its impacts at the local level;
  • Last-mile connectivity, communication, dissemination of early warnings in low resource settings;
  • Citizen science and crowdsourcing towards a community-based early warning system.

Expected Impacts

  • Transform current decision making practices to adopt a data-driven collaboration approach for decision making in building local resilience and issuing early warnings.
  • Establish communities as important actors in local resilience building and early warning systems.
  • Establish an efficient and effective Early Warning System for the community (digital and non-digital).

Methodology

The Living Lab methodology is being used to provide an “Experimentation and Learning Environment” for local government organisations, third party organisations, technical and scientific experts and communities to co-create solutions that can address their local problems, deploy and validate them in their local settings.

Pilot Area

The project has chosen Kalutara district as our pilot area since it is subjected to increasing landslide risks, floods and drought due to climate change. Kalutara has a land area of 1,624km2 (164,380ha) with a total population of 1,221,948 and 302,371 houses.

Project Partners

  • THINKlab - University of Salford, UK
  • National Building Research Organisation, Sri Lanka
  • TECXAL Systems Ltd, Sri Lanka

Living Lab User Partners


  • Kalutara District Secretariat and local partners
  • Disaster Management Centre
  • Local Community group representatives.

Get in Touch with Us

Send your query!

 thinklab@salford.ac.uk

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