TS3: World Reconstruction Conference Thematic Session 3: Assessment-led Reconstruction (From Assessment to Recovery and Reconstruction Planning--Closing the Loop)

Description

Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) is an internationally accepted tool that has come to increasingly inform the reconstruction process. PDNAs guide knowledge-based and country-led recovery and reconstruction, donor coordination, development effectiveness, aid harmonization, as well as risk reduction and adaptation mainstreaming into future development strategies. This session will focus on the PDNA’s effi cacy and evolution as a tool and the need to customize assessments to disaster-specifi c contexts. The aim is to refi ne the PDNA in terms of best practices, disaster preparedness, country ownership issues, the challenges of mainstreaming and implementation, and integration of information technology solutions.