Review of post disaster recovery needs assessment and methodologies: Experiences from Asia and Latin America

The post disaster recovery needs assessment (PDNA) framework is intended to help coordinate recovery efforts across different sectors and with a risk reduction focus. In this background, the PDNA project was developed in 2005. It is led by the United Nations Development Programme in its capacity as the cluster lead for Early Recovery and as a part of the International Recovery Platform (IRP) and the IASC Cluster Working Group on Early Recovery (CWGER). 

The primary purpose of the PDNA framework will be to provide all actors in a recovery process with a multi-sectoral, technical overview of the damage and loss patterns and the principal recovery needs and priorities to be addressed to help with reconstruction, sustainable development and post-disaster risk reduction.