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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 

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