Sign In
Learn bits
Polity & Governance, Ecology & Environment
Mahesh

23/10/22 15:26 PM IST

Post-Disaster Needs Assessment

In News 
  • An international framework for assessing losses and damages in the aftermath of a disaster is now being used to evaluate the financial and social cost of local disasters in eight states in India.
  • The framework helps get recovery and reconstruction efforts right following a disaster.
About PDNA 
  • The Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) is an internationally accepted methodology for determining the physical damages, economic losses, and costs of meeting recovery needs after a natural disaster through a government-led process.
  • For E.g. a number of farmers’ income affected per damaged acre of land and livelihoods lost is calculated.
  • PDNA was first adopted during the Kerala floods of 2018 and again during the cyclone in Odisha in 2019.
  • Until now it was only limited to massive disasters that needed international funding from World Bank, Asian Development Bank and United Nations.
  • But now the Disaster Management Authorities are working towards applying PDNA for all disasters.
  • It is now being done simultaneously in 8 states Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Odisha and Meghalaya.
Importance 
  • Helps get recovery and rehabilitation right after a disaster.
  • It adds a recovery and resilience component to disaster management.
  • Aims to encourage building back better.
  • A holistic recovery programme that promotes equity and inclusion.
Source- DTE 

More Related Current Affairs View All

05 May

Key objectives of caste count

'The Union Cabinet has decided that the next Census will include questions on caste to its enumeration of India’s population, for the first time in almost a century. ' T

Read More

05 May

2 new genome-edited rice varieties

'Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan recently released two genome-edited varieties of rice, the first achievement of its kind in the country.' These two varieties, which

Read More

05 Mar

First-ever comprehensive survey of India’s river dolphins

'Prime Minister Narendra Modi released the results of the first-ever comprehensive population estimation of riverine dolphins – Gangetic and Indus dolphins – done in In

Read More

India’s First Ai-Driven Magazine Generator

Generate Your Custom Current Affairs Magazine using our AI in just 3 steps