Post-disaster needs assessment guidelines: Volume B - Gender

The Post-disaster needs assessment (PDNA) Guidelines have been developed to provide technical support to practitioners as they plan for and implement the needs assessment and design the recovery framework. Volume A provides a general overview of the PDNA framework and process. Volume B provides sector-specific guidance for all the sectors that could potentially be covered by a PDNA, depending on the context and the scale of the disaster.

Gender has been identified as an important cross-cutting issue in PDNAs. This document covers the following steps:

• Assessment process;
• Pre-disaster situation; 
• Assessment of disaster effects;
• Estimating the value of the effects of the disaster;
• Assessment of disaster impact;
• Cross-sectoral linkages including cross-cutting issues;
• The sector recovery strategy.

This PDNA volume is available in English, French, and Russian.