PDNA: Post-Disaster Needs Assessments

A Post-Disaster Needs Assessment and Recovery Framework (PDNA/RF) together comprise an approach to harmonize the assessment, analysis and prioritization of damages, losses and needs by a range of stakeholders (United Nations agencies and programmes, the World Bank, donors, non-governmental organizations) in support of the national government.

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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

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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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PDNA on-demand training

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Bangkok
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10th International training course on flood disaster risk management
The International Training Course on Flood Disaster Risk Management (FDRM) has been designed to achieve the goal of creating flood resilient society. With rich experiences in providing similar courses for natural disaster mitigation at international level
Meetings and conferences
Recife
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Climate change and disasters in North East Brazil: Civil society and governmental response
This event will address the relationship between climate change and the increase of disasters in Brazil; aspects of disaster management to be discussed are: prevention, response, reconstruction. It will also develop proposals for the Civil Defence and
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Asia-Oceania resilience conference (AOR 2010)
Background IAEM’s Asia-Oceania Resilience (AOR 2010) is the first conference organized specifically to bring together private and public sector professionals in security, emergency management, crisis management, business continuity management, risk
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online
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Appropriate options for recovery and reconstruction – learning from South Asia
This meeting will look at how to contextualize regional knowledge to suit different contexts of rebuilding in Pakistan. With a long history of facing disasters, the region has a pool of successful models, which the organizers feel would be appropriate to
Meetings and conferences
Birminghan
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In person
International conference on emergency preparedness (InterCEPt)
Overview Hosted by the Aston Centre for Research into Safety and Security (CRISIS), the International Conference on Emergency Preparedness (InterCEPt) aims to facilitate the exchange of academic research, innovations and best operational practices in the
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Antalya
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DPPI SEE disaster risk reduction course
The 2nd Disaster risk reduction (DRR) course is jointly organized/ hosted by the Disaster & Emergency Management Presidency of Turkey (AFAD) and the Disaster Preparedness & Prevention Initiative for South Eastern Europe (DPPI SEE) in collaboration with UN
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Vienna
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1st annual conference of the International Society for Integrated Disaster Risk Management
Losses of human lives and economic losses from natural disasters have increased dramatically in the last decades. Especially developing regions are highly vulnerable to natural disasters. The objective of this conference, similar to the previous events
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