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.

All PDNAs

Earthquake 2009 Bhutan Joint Rapid Assessment for Recovery Reconstruction and Risk Reduction
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This Joint Rapid Assessment presents preliminary cost estimates for loss and damage from the 2009 Earthquake in Bhutan. It estimates recovery costs and identifies priorities for early recovery, reconstruction and disaster risk reduction.

Bhutan - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations - Headquarters
Hurricane Fay Gustav Hanna and Ike (Cyclone) 2008 Haiti Post Disaster Needs Assessment -FR
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This Post Disaster Needs Assessment estimates the total damages and identifies immediate needs for rehabilitation and reconstruction in Haiti following the 2008 storms Gustav, Hanna, Ike and Fay.

Haiti - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations - Headquarters
European Union
Floods 2008 Bolivia Assessment of the Accumulated and Additional Impact Caused by La Nina
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This Damage and Loss Assessment estimates total damage and losses caused by heavy rains that caused floods in Bolivia in 2007-2008

Bolivia - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations - Headquarters
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL)
Tropical Storm and Floods 2008 Yemen Damage Losses and Needs Assessment
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This report presents an estimation of the main effects of the disaster: the value of physical assets totally or partially destroyed; losses in economic flows from the absence of those assets; and the impact on economic development and social conditions.

Yemen - government
World Bank, the
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR)
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Cyclone Nargis 2008 Myanmar Post Nargis Joint Assessment
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This report describes the human loss and assessment of damage to physical assets, the subsequent losses sustained across all economic activities, and the impact of the disaster on both the national economy and household-level activities and well-being.

Myanmar - government
Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)
United Nations - Headquarters
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
DLNA Madagascar 2008
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

The Government of Madagascar undertook a comprehensive damage and loss and needs assessment to ascertain the extent of the damages caused by the three consecutive cyclones in 2008, and to define a comprehensive and feasible recovery plan.

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

This Needs Assessment guides the design and investment prioritization of the proposed Kosi Flood Recovery project. It provides a damage overview in key sectors to identify priority interventions and progress made.

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

The aim of the assessment is to identify priority areas to support the Government of Bangladesh in cyclone recovery efforts as well as to design a disaster management strategy.

Bangladesh - government
World Bank, the
European Commission
International Labour Organization
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Japan Bank For International Cooperation
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Islamic Development Bank
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters
World Food Programme
World Health Organization (WHO)
Department for International Development
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)
Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh: Damage, loss, and needs assessment for disaster recovery and reconstruction
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This document identifies the needs and quantified financial requirements that will facilitate formulating comprehensive early recovery actions, medium‐term recovery and reconstruction plans, and a long‐term risk management and reduction strategy.

Bangladesh - government
World Bank, the
European Commission
International Labour Organization
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Japan Bank For International Cooperation
Japan International Cooperation Agency
Islamic Development Bank
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations - Headquarters
World Food Programme
World Health Organization (WHO)
Department for International Development
United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
United Nations Children's Fund (Global Headquarters, New York)
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This report provides a summary of data collected in the flood assessment.

World Bank, the

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