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Seychelles Damage, Loss and Needs Assessment (DaLA) 2013 Floods
of noncompliance with existing building and land use
regulations, resulting in, inter alia, increased siltation of
natural drainage, increased runoff, and poorly sited construction.
Utilizing the Damage and Loss Assessment (DaLA)
methodology (after receiving training from the World
Bank team), the various government departments involved
have been able to aggregate key data and understand
the full impact of the flood in terms of both
damages (impact on physical infrastructure) and losses
(economic impact). Data gathering and analysis of flood
impact were conducted for the following overarching
sectors: (i) infrastructure—transport/roads, electricity,
water supply and sanitation, and fire, police, and aviation;
(ii) productive—agriculture and agro-industries;
(iii) social—housing, health, and education; and (iv)
cross-cutting—environment, gender, and disaster risk
management. An analysis of the macroeconomic impact
of the event was carried out as well.
According to the summary of the data reported from
each affected sector, the January 2013 disaster in the
Seychelles resulted in total damage and losses of SR
Figure 1: Summary of the data reported from
each affected sector (million SR)
104 million (US$8.4 million), equivalent to 0.77% of
the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Most of
the flood damage was sustained by the infrastructure
sector (38%), followed by the productive sector
(26%), the social sectors (24%), the cross-cutting sectors
(5%), the fiscal budget (4%), and personal income
(3%) (see Figure 1).
As is to be expected, the proportion of damage versus
losses is greatest in the infrastructure sector and about
equal in the productive and social sectors. The proportion
of losses versus damage was greatest in the area
of personal income, the environment sector, and other
line ministries (see Figure 2).
Given the heavy impact on infrastructure, the public
sector bore the brunt of the disaster with 70% of damage
and losses, versus 30% for the private sector.
The following table summarizes the damage and losses
for all affected sectors:
Among the subsectors, the transport/roads subsector
was the most affected (35.1%), followed by agricul-
Figure 2: proportion of losses versus damage
40
Cross-cutting
5,084,414
5%
Social sectors
25,426,880
24%
Fiscal budget
4,351,567
4%
Personal income
2,506,586
3%
Infrasructure
39,592,391
38%
Million SR
30
20
n Loss
n Damage
Productive
sectors
27,532,008
26%
10
0
Infrasructure
Productive
Social sector
Cross-cutting
Fiscal budget
Personal income