Publication: Damage, Loss, and Needs Assessment Guidance Notes : Volume 1. Design and Execution of a Damage, Loss, and Needs Assessment
Date
2010
ISSN
Published
2010
Author(s)
Jovel, Roberto J.
Mudahar, Mohinder
Abstract
This is a guideline for World Bank task
team leaders (TTLs) entrusted with the design and execution
of assessments to determine disaster impacts as well as
post-disaster needs for recovery, reconstruction, and
disaster risk reduction or management. Assessments estimate,
first, the short-term government interventions required to
initiate recovery and second, the financial requirements to
achieve overall post-disaster recovery, reconstruction, and
disaster risk management or reduction. The end product of
the assessment is a comprehensive program of recovery,
reconstruction, and risk management that will guide all
actions in a developing country following a disaster. The
damage and loss assessment (DaLA) methodology uses
objective, quantitative information on the value of
destroyed assets and temporary production losses to
estimate, first, government interventions for the short term
and second, post-disaster financing needs. The DaLA method
ensures that the affected government, the United Nations and
other international and domestic agencies jointly develop
properly estimated and prioritized financial requirements
and an accompanying formula that identifies all possible
financial sources and modalities. In addition, the
estimation of the needs can be used as a basis to monitor
post-disaster recovery and reconstruction progress. The DaLA
aim at operationalizing the concepts for practitioners at
government agencies, the World Bank, and other national and
international organizations, responsible for assessing the
impact of disasters, and for developing recovery and
reconstruction plans. The guidance notes comprises of three
volumes: (i) guideline for TTL in the design and execution
of a damage, loss, and needs assessment, (ii) conducting
damage and loss assessments after disasters, and (iii)
estimation of post-disaster needs for recovery and reconstruction.
Citation
“Jovel, Roberto J.; Mudahar, Mohinder. 2010. Damage, Loss, and Needs Assessment Guidance Notes : Volume 1. Design and Execution of a Damage, Loss, and Needs Assessment. © World Bank, Washington, DC. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/19047 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”