Tanzania Wami Ruvu Rufiji Overall Vulnerability Index (Community Sector)

This product is one of the output maps developed for the community following the IPCC framework. The overall community vulnerability map was created through the integration of indicators relevant to vulnerability of communities(people)to climate variability and change. The following indicators was used rainfall trend, rainfall variability, longterm average maximum temperature, flood frequency, soil organic carbon, population counts, poverty index, child mortality, malaria susceptibility, crop productivity, market access,health infrastructure index, landuse landcover change and water access. All the indicators were averaged to produced overall vulnerability map. Vulnerability index is divided into five categories from lowest to highest.