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.

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tropical storm sendong pdna
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This PDNA assesses the damage, losses, and needs for recovery in key social, infrastructure, and productive sectors as a result of the tropical storm Sendong. Policy and program recommendations for governance and disaster risk reduction are also provided.

Philippines - government
2012 Malawi Floods PDNA
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This assessment provides the recovery needs in the various sectors affected by the floods in Nsanje, Malawi. It provides recommended actions to improve the PDNA process in Malawi, and the guiding principles for the recovery framework.

Malawi - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
2010 uganda drought pdna
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This assessment covers the losses and damage caused by the rainfall deficits, the priority and needs for recovery and reconstruction, and the proposed steps necessary for disaster risk management.

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

This PDNA report presents a quantitative estimation of the impacts of the drought in Kenya on socioeconomic development, and recommendations for recovery and long-term resilience-building.

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

This is a report about the affected communities hit by Cyclone Thane on 29th and 30th of December 2011.

Swayam Shikshan Prayog
Evaluation des Dommages, Pertes et Besoins Suite à la Sécheresse
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

The objective of the assessment was to highlight on the one hand the damage and losses caused by the drought in Djibouti but also and above all to identify the needs to deal with the consequences and find an environment close to the condition before 2008.

Djibouti - government
European Union
World Bank, the
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
2011 lesotho pdna
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This PDNA examines the social and economic damage caused by a series of extreme weather events between December 2010 and February 2011 in Lesotho. A disaster recovery framework with guiding principles for reconstruction and DRR programs is included.

Lesotho - government
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
2011 pakistan floods pdna
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This Damage and Needs Assessment provides a summary of the damage caused by the 2011 flood in Pakistan and what is necessary for recovery in each sector, including housing, education, and infrastructure.

Pakistan - government
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
United Nations - Headquarters
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This report is the summary of a post disaster assessment of the areas most affected by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami.

SEEDS - Asia
OYO International Corporation
2011 lao pdr pdna
Documents and publications
PDNA - Post Disaster Needs Assessments

This report covers the damage and losses in key sectors following Typhoon Haima in Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The report also provides a strategic framework for Disaster Risk Management and recovery.

Lao People's Democratic Republic - government
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery, the (GFDRR)

PDNA on-demand training

Meetings and conferences
Online
This side-event will provide an opportunity for country representatives from the Southeast Asia region to: Share their challenges and priorities in the thematic areas of: water security, clean energy finance and investment mobilisation, sustainable infrastructure, and marine plastic pollution. and Learn about OECD activities that support green recovery in practice in the region, building on ongoing collaboration with countries on the above-mentioned thematic areas.
Meetings and conferences
Seoul, South Korea
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Online
This Ministerial Conference will both celebrate the achievements of the OECD Southeast Asia Regional Programme (SEARP) to date, as its ambitious second phase draws to a close, and look forward, identifying the digital, environmental and social challenges faced by the region due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Meetings and conferences
Online
The roundtable will provide an opportunity for development providers from OECD countries, Southeast Asia and Regional Development Funds, the World Bank, and the UN Office of South-South Co-operation to exchange knowledge, ideas and experiences on how development co-operation can guide a sustainable COVID-19 Recovery.
Meetings and conferences
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Online
This seminar aims to achieve several objectives, including: promote the sharing of experiences by both the public and private sector on the impact of Covid-19 on MSMEs in Southern Africa, highlighting commonalities and differences in response strategies that were deployed to minimize impacts; stimulate reflections on how MSMEs in Southern Africa can best build back better, especially in the context of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), other trade agreements and regional collaboration.
Meetings and conferences
Online
The objective of this panel is to approach the ongoing digital and green transitions with and among regional stakeholders in Southeast Asia.
Meetings and conferences
Online
A new generation of gender-responsive employment policies can play an important role to promote an inclusive and job-rich recovery from the COVID-19 crisis. This webinar will bring together experts and policymakers from different regions to share knowledge on how they have produced specific diagnostics on how women and men have been impacted by the crisis, and the ways in which they have progressed in implementing gender-responsive policies.
Training event
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Online
This workshop comes as part of Egypt’s national efforts to build resilience to disasters to reduce their risks on sustainable development plans, by integrating biological hazards, as well as the method of adaptation to climate change in policies, plans, and programs at all levels, within the framework of cooperation between the Egyptian Cabinet Information and Decision Support Centre (IDSC) and the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) in implementing the regional initiative “Building back better after COVID-19”.