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After any disaster, the affected community need to invest significant resources to meet recovery needs. Their many programs and example of post-disaster assessment, one of the example is Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDA), this tool is a coordinated approach which provides a comprehensive and government-led assessment of the aftermath damage, losses, and recovery needs. This tool considers wide-ranging assessment from the rapid assessment of immediate needs to the most elaborate assessment of long-term recovery and risk reduction requirements. is the first step towards developing a holistic recovery program that promotes equity and inclusion.
This tool was developed by the United Nation Development Group, the World Bank and the European Union as one of the key commitments of their 2008 agreement to develop and use common assessment and recovery planning approaches in post-crisis settings. The main goal is to examine disaster’s impact, define the needs for recovery, and, in so doing, serve as the basis for designing a recovery strategy and guide donors’ funding. In addition, it works in restoring damaged infrastructure, houses, livelihoods, services, governance, and social systems, and includes an emphasis on reducing future disaster risks and building resilience.
One example of the real-world disaster that used PDNA is after Neal Earthquakes on 25 April and 12 May 2015, nearly 9,000 lives and over a half a million homes have been destroyed. This is a colossal loss for an impoverished country. After that the need for recovery assessment was important. PDNA exercise was launched simultaneously to take stock of our damage, loss and needs so far.
United Nations Development Programme. (n.d.). Post-disaster needs assessments. Retrieved from http://www.undp.org/
Nepal earthquake 2015 Post Disaster Needs Assessment. (2015). Retrieved from http://www.worldbank.org/
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Whenever a disaster takes place, it is imperative that a post-disaster assessment is undertaken to assess the aftermath, losses, and recovery needs by the society so that it can go back to the situation it was in before the disaster struck. The assessment is also meant to develop strategies that can ensure that future disasters are eradicated or deterred. An example of a real-world post-disaster assessment and post-disaster priority is the Haiti earthquake post-disaster needs assessment.
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