page_title: Sahana Software Foundation
section_title: Community Resilience Mapping Tool
hierarchical_section_title: Sahana Software Foundation / Sahana FOSS Disaster Management System / Community Resilience Mapping Tool
caption_attribution_description: English: This is a screen shot to represent the Sahana Software Foundation Community Resilience Mapping Tool. Other information The County of Los Angeles links to the demo server on the Sahana Foundation web site, showing this screen shot. The rest of the application is password restricted, but this image can be freely reproduced as a representation of the software. To verify that the software is open source, please see the information on http://www.razoo.com/story/Sahana-Software-Foundation
context_page_description: Sahana Software Foundation is a Los Angeles, California-based non-profit organization founded to promote the use of free and open-source software for disaster and emergency management. The foundation's mission statement is to "save lives by providing information management solutions that enable organizations and communities to better prepare for and respond to disasters." The foundation's Sahana family of software products include Eden, designed for humanitarian needs management; Vesuvius, focused on the disaster preparedness needs of the medical community; and legacy earlier versions of Sahana software including Krakatoa, descended from the original Sahana code base developed following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The word "Sahana" means "relief" in Sinhalese, the national language of Sri Lanka.
context_section_description: In 2012, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) and Emergency Network Los Angeles, a voluntary agency, reached out to nongovernmental community organizations working in disaster and pandemic preparedness to find a better way of communicating with LA County's diverse population, to build resilience. Along with the RAND Corporation, the nonprofit policy think tank, the groups started a project called Los Angeles County Community Disaster Resilience (LACCDR), to educate and engage community leaders to promote resiliency in Los Angeles County.
  As part of the program, Sahana Software Foundation developed the Community Resilience Mapping Tool, to help communities collect data on vulnerabilities, hazards and resources within their own territories. The data allows communities to identify populations that could be affected by disasters, and plan the best way to allocate resources to help those people. Barriers like limited English proficiency, or low trust in public health, can be addressed through the tool.
caption: Screen shot showing the Sahana Software Foundation's Community Resilience Mapping Tool, developed for the County of Los Angeles
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