PDNA guidance

These guides support a consistent and coherent approach to the post-disaster assessment, provide an objective and comprehensive estimate of recovery needs, while facilitating quick decision-making and action

Featured PDNAs

PDNA is a government-led exercise, with integrated support from the United Nations, the European Commission, the World Bank and other national and international actors. A PDNA pulls together information into a single, consolidated report, information on the physical impacts of a disaster, the economic value of the damages and losses, the human impacts as experienced by the affected population, and the resulting early and long-term recovery needs and priorities.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

Nepal PDNA 2017
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

The Post Flood Recovery Needs Assessment offers an objective basis for recovery planning and measures for reducing future risks. It estimates the impact of the 2017 floods that affected the Terai region and to identify medium-term recovery needs.

Nepal - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Marshall Islands 2016
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This report is a rapid socio-economic assessment of the sectors impacted by the 2015-2016 drought in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. This assessment is the first PDNA of a drought in the Pacific.

Marshall Islands - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Cyclone Winston PDNA
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This PDNA covers the damage and losses across various sectors following Tropical Cyclone Winston that struck Fiji in 2016. A summary of recovery, reconstruction, and resilience needs are included in the report.

Fiji - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
2016 seychelles pdna
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This PDNA provides a comprehensive assessment of the impact of Tropical Cyclone Fantala, which hit the Seychelles’ Outer Islands in 2016. A recovery strategy, which functions as an outline for a country-led recovery process, is included in this report.

Seychelles - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Sri Lanka 2016 PDNA
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This PDNA covers the damage and losses across various sectors following heavy rainfall and flooding in Vietnam in 2016. A recovery strategy proposing a long-term plan to strengthen the country’s preparedness for future disasters.

Sri Lanka - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Grenadines Floods 2016
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This report provides a rapid damage and loss assessment to inform the Government ’s recovery planning. It includes recommendations to further incorporate disaster risk reduction and management into land use and physical planning decision-making processes.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
2016 Malawi Drought PDNA
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This PDNA provides an analysis of the physical, socioeconomic, and human impacts of the 2015-2016 drought in Malawi. It analyzes the challenges and lessons from the ongoing drought response and provides recommendations for improved drought resilience.

Malawi - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Drought Angola PDNA 2016
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This PDNA examines the impact of the prolonged drought from 2012 to 2016 in Angola on the three southern provinces Cunene, Namibe and Huíla. It provides a recovery strategy and key interventions for each of the three provinces.

Angola - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

The PDNA report indicates that the Malawi 2015 floods affected 1,101,364 people, displaced 230,000 and killed 106 people. The assessment focuses on medium to long term reconstruction and provides the guiding principles for recovery.

Malawi - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

The report presents a comprehensive post disaster needs assessment exercise, launched simultaneously with response and relief efforts at the request of the Government of Nepal, with the objective to estimate damages and losses caused by the earthquake and to help identify recovery needs as well as strategy required for its implementation. The assessment exercise was led by the National Planning Commission (NPC) with assistance of more than 250 national and international experts who worked round the clock to produce this assessment covering 23 sectors in less than one month.

Nepal - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

All PDNAs

PDNA TC Kevin and Judy Vanuatu 2023
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This PDNA documents the impact that Tropical Cyclone Judy and Kevin have had on the people and economy of Vanuatu and also the recovery plan to transition Vanuatu back on its development pathway.

Vanuatu - government
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Build Change Needs Assessment and Post-Disaster Reconnaissance Report
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This report analyzes the impacts of the February 2023 earthquakes in Türkiye, and provides recommendations for rebuilding and enhancing resilience, emphasizing the integration of local practices and policies into recovery efforts.

Build Change
Extremely Severe Cyclonic Storm Mocha, May 2023, Myanmar:
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This report summarizes the results of the GRADE conducted to assess damages following the impact of the extremely severe cyclonic storm Mocha in Myanmar in May 2023.

World Bank, the
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
Malawi Cyclone Freddy PDNA
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

The Malawi 2023 Tropical Cyclone Freddy Post-Disaster Needs Assessment report assesses the impacts of the disaster and provides recommendations for building back better in recovery and reconstruction.

Malawi - government
World Bank, the
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Agricultural War Damages, Losses, and Needs Review Issue 3 April 24, 2023
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This Report presents the details of the Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment (RDNA) that was carried out for Agriculture Sector of Ukraine as part of the second RDNA report prepared.

Kyiv School of Economics
World Bank, the
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
Cover
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

The Syria Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment assesses the impact of the February 2023 Turkiye-Syria earthquakes in the six most affected areas. It provides a preliminary estimate of infrastructure reconstruction and service delivery restoration needs.

Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
World Bank, the
Turkiye PDNA
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

The recovery and reconstruction assessment presented here comprises of an assessment of the financial impact of the earthquakes which struck Turkiye and Syria in February 2023, applying modified PDNA methodology, and a “recovery vision.”

Turkey - government
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
World Bank, the
European Union
Ukraine Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment 2023
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This assessment is part of an ongoing effort to take stock of Ukraine’s damage and losses from the war. It aims to assess the scale of economic and social needs for Ukraine’s survival during the war and it's prosperity afterward.

Ukraine - government
World Bank, the
European Union
United Nations - Headquarters
Cover
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This report provides an early and preliminary estimate of the direct damage costs caused by these earthquakes, which in turn will inform the response of the World Bank Group and its partners and support planning for recovery and reconstruction.

World Bank, the
Post Disaster Needs Assessment(PDNA)-Bangladesh: floods 2022
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

The Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) report for Bangladesh's 2022 floods aims to assess the cost and impacts of the damage and loss resulting from the disaster.

Bangladesh - government
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Bureau for Crisis Prevention and Recovery - UNDP

PDNA on-demand training

Meetings and conferences
Baku, Azerbaijan
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Online
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Banda Aceh, Indonesia
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In person
Meetings and conferences
Sendai city, Miyagi Prefecture
Online
Meetings and conferences
Cairo, Egypt
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Online
Meetings and conferences
Kumamoto-city
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Online

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