Comprehensive Automated Risk Assessment (CARA) web-based tool adapted for subnational jurisdictional risk assessment for Libya.
# Libya CARA
**Comprehensive Assessment of Risk Analytics — Libya national and subnational risk dashboard**
Libya CARA is a bilingual (Arabic primary, English secondary) subnational
disaster and crisis risk assessment platform for Libya. It produces a
headline INFORM Risk Index score at the national level and across 106
municipalities, decomposed into the three INFORM pillars (Hazard &
Exposure, Vulnerability, Lack of Coping Capacity) and into 34 individual
indicators with full data provenance and "data not available" handling.
This is an operational, jurisdiction-specific deployment, not a generic
template. It was forked from a US-state template implementation in 2026
and rebuilt around Libya-specific data sources, governance terminology,
and the bilingual RTL UI.
## Status
- **Deployment scope:** Libya — national level (LY) plus 106 verified
municipalities (52 west, 34 east, 20 south).
- **Methodology:** INFORM Risk Index 2024
(`
drmkc.jrc.ec.europa.eu`), aligned with the
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030.
- **Risk formula:** geometric mean of the three pillars,
`(Hazard x Vulnerability x Coping)^(1/3)`, calculated in
`routes/dashboard.py::_run_pillars()` and pinned by automated tests
in `tests/test_inform.py`.
- **Access:** restricted. The application is gated behind the
`CARA_ACCESS_PASSWORD` session secret and is intended for official
Libyan government use only. It is not a public website.
- **Languages:** Modern Standard Arabic (primary, RTL) and English
(secondary, LTR) on every page, every dashboard tile, every action
plan item, and every methodology note.
- **Out of scope by design:** the armed-clashes / political-violence
domain present in the upstream INFORM model is intentionally omitted
from the published risk score. The legacy US-specific
active-shooter, NCES, and Gun Violence Archive components have been
fully removed.
## What you get
- A national dashboard at `/dashboard/LY` and a per-municipality
dashb …