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Guidelines & Sample Damage and Needs Assessments

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Manuals and Guidelines

Handbook for Estimating the Socio-economic and Environmental Effects of Disasters - United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 2003. The methodology is available in  SpanishFrench, and Japanese. The World Bank, under the umbrella of the ProVention Consortium, provided inputs and resources during the publishing of this handbook.

Doing More For Those Made Homeless by Natural Disasters, October 2001, (PDF - 0.267 MB)

Sample Damage and Needs Assessment Reports

Indonesia Post-earthquake Damage and Loss Assessment for Central Java and Yogyakarta - June 2006

Pakistan 2005 Earthquake: Preliminary Damage and Needs Assessment - November 2005

India Post-Tsunami Damage and Needs Assessment - March, 2005

Maldives Post-Tsunami Damage and Needs Assessment - February, 2005

Sri Lanka Post-Tsunami Damage and Needs Assessment - February, 2005

Indonesia Post-Tsunami Damage and Needs Assessment - January, 2005

Guyana Flood Needs Assessment - January, 2005

Grenada Hurricane Ivan Assessment - September, 2004

Gujarat Earthquake Assessment - March, 2001

El impacto socioeconomico y ambiental de la sequia de 2001 en centromamerica - February, 2001

El Salvador Earthquake Assessment  - January, 2001

Belize: Assessment of the damage caused by Hurricane Keith (PDF - 1 MB) Annex: List of project files (PDF - 0.21 MB) - November, 2000

Mozambique: Preliminary Assessment of Damage from the Flood and Cyclone Emergency - March, 2000

Turkey Marmara Earthquake (PDF - 0.82 MB) - September, 1999




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