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Guidelines on PDNA and Recovery

IASC meeting 26th April

Outline of presentation

• Background and Context
• The Post Crisis Agreements
• Evolution of the PDNA
• Overview of the guidance notes
• Process for development of guidance

notes

• Endorsement process
• Next steps

Background and Context

• Post‐disaster chaos:
• Several humanitarian assessments oriented to cover

the immediate relief needs

• Scattered sector/area assessments developed by

specialized agencies, bilateral donors, NGOs etc.

• riented to plan and programme concrete partial

recovery interventions. 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami assessment experience showed need for more unified support to governments Pakistan 2005 : Need of providing articulated support to crisis government and facilitate comprehensive assessment to plan and programme the recovery process reducing the underlying causes of disasters

• Development of cluster approach brought up the

need for a uniform and consistent methodology to be used by all the agencies

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Post Crisis : Agreements and principles

• Joint Declaration on Post‐Crisis Assessments and Recovery

Planning (UNDG – World Bank and EC) signed 25 September 2008

Common platform for partnership and action” “Collaboration to enhance country resilience to crisis” “integrated efforts to work with national authorities and partners to strengthen national capacity for effective prevention and response”; “Support implementation of national recovery” “Need to be flexible to respond to different country needs” Common methodology, toolkit and capacities

Evolution of the PDNA

• PDNA evolved from the Damage and Loss Assessment

(DALA) Methodology developed by the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) in early 1970s.

• Sector‐based analysis largely focused on infrastructure

losses: roads, communication, power, public buildings, etc and aggregation of sector‐wise results to ascertain the cumulative impact of a disaster.

• Damage represented total or partial destruction of

physical assets, which occurs during the disaster event itself, and valued at replacement costs

Evolution of PDNA : From Dala to HRNA

• The HRNA evolved from the need to expand definitions of

assessment from valuation of physical damages and economic losses to capture impacts on human development including impacts on households and communities, on social, cultural and governance issues.

• It also aims to shift focus from economic recovery to broader

restoration of functions and systems and capacities.

• Need to capture impact across households and communities ,

going beyond economic losses to social and cultural loss.

• Focus on vulnerable, excluded, marginalized groups and on

cross cutting issues such as gender, risks and environment.

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Overview of the guidance notes

Volume A

• Introduction to the

PDNA

• Assessment

approach (Dala & HRNA)

• Procedures and

tools

• Volume B 12 guidance

notes

• Education , Health ,

Housing, Culture

• Agri; Fish &Livestock

Empl & livelihoods

• WASH & Community

infrastructure

• DRR , Governance ,

Gender , Environment.

Overview of guidance notes : Volume A

Chapters 1 & 2

• Introduction
• Defines the key elements
• f the Assessment

process

• Outlines key steps to the

assessment from data collection to analysis and guidance for the development of a Recovery Roadmap based

• n the assessment

results.

Chap 3 Procedures

• Process for activating ,

and conducting a PDNA.

• Protocols for

coordinated support by the partners

• Addresses critical issues

such as timing of the assessment , role of the 3 partners vis a vis the National Government

Overview of Guidance notes Volume B

• The sector chapters follow a common structure

that captures the core elements of the PDNA approach described in Volume A .

• While the sectors follow this broad structure,

each sector has its own set of tools, techniques and assessment methodologies developed by the specialized UN agencies and Bank pertinent to the needs of the particular sector.

• Introduction of new sectors : WASH , DRR,

Community Infrastructure , Governance more focus on specific niche areas and as cross cutting issues.

26/04/2013 4 Process for development of Guidance notes

• Started in 2010 with nine UN agencies working on the

chapters

• UNDP took the lead in developing the overall chapeau

chapter which outlines the assessment approach and the procedures for conducting the PDNA.

• UNICEF, UNEP, UN‐Habitat, UNESCO, UN Women, ILO,

FAO, WHO, UNDP drafted the sector chapters

• Drafting team for both Volume A and Volume B included

team of experts with years of experience in conducting both humanitarian assessments and PDNAs.

• Two iterations , first in 2011 and the second in 2012 with

the Human Recovery needs assessment approach integrated in all sector chapters.

Process of Consultation

• Three levels of consultations : In house;

Technical experts UN system & Key partners.

• 2011 online consultations on the guidance

notes by uploading the documents on IRP workspace exclusively dedicated to PDNAs with experts given access to comment on the notes

• 2012 : Technical review of the sector

guidance notes by Cluster working groups ,

• ther UN agencies , Donors agencies.
• Bilateral consultations with experts in the

Bank and EU.

Endorsement Process

Why

• Meeting one key milestone of the partnership: to

develop common methodological guidelines

• “Binds” three partners to observe ‘rules of

engagement” work together in support of National Governments

• Establishes standard and methodology for

assessment.

• Facilitates institutionalization and capacity

building in countries.

• Important for public dissemination and use by

practitioners

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Next Steps

• Endorsement by EU and the World Bank

first on Volume A and subsequently on Volume B

• Launch in the Global Platform for DRR by

the three partners

• Developing of training materials and

capacity building activities

• Strengthen linkages between MIRA and

PDNA

THANK YOU

Discussion & Questions