Post-Disaster Needs Assessment : Lessons from a Decade of Experience
As natural disaster events continue to occur with increasing frequency at greater material and human costs globally, there is an imperative need for countries to recover from these disasters’ damaging effects with increased national resilience. The...
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| Language: | English |
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European Commission, GFDRR, UNDP, and the World Bank
2018
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/481761539848031116/Post-Disaster-Needs-Assessment-PDNA-Lessons-from-a-Decade-of-Experience http://hdl.handle.net/10986/30945 |
| Summary: | As natural disaster events continue to
occur with increasing frequency at greater material and
human costs globally, there is an imperative need for
countries to recover from these disasters’ damaging effects
with increased national resilience. The extent to which that
information can be obtained in a way that balances
timeliness with comprehensiveness, and is accurate and
justifiable, will accelerate recovery initiatives.
Post-disaster needs assessments (PDNAs) is an
internationally accepted methodology for determining the
physical damages, economic losses, and costs of meeting
recovery needs after a natural disaster through a
government-led process. This PDNA review is the first
instance of the participating institutions assessing the
demonstrated effectiveness of PDNAs, as the practice has
evolved over the fifty five post-disaster assessments
conducted since 2008. The United Nations Development
Programme (UNDP) and the Global Facility for Disaster
Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) of the World Bank Group have
undertaken the review with support from the European Union
between March and June 2017. The review focuses on ten areas
of inquiry and draws on a sample of fourteen PDNAs. The
countries that were included in the PDNA review were
distributed across global regions and demonstrated both
shared and contrasting geophysical, socioeconomic,
political, and cultural characteristics. This review
includes discussions with tripartite institutions and
selected countries that have undertaken PDNAs. |
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