Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA): Hurricane Matthew
- The PDNA was prepared by the Government of Haiti with support from the United Nations system, the European Union, the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank.
- The assessment covers Hurricane Matthew's effects, response, post-disaster needs, macroeconomic impact, human and social impact, and recovery strategy.
- The report estimates total effects at 2.778 billion US dollars, equivalent to 183,639.27 billion gourdes at 66.1 gourdes per US dollar.
- Damage and losses are estimated at 32 percent of GDP, and close to three quarters of recorded effects were in social sectors, followed by productive sectors, cross-cutting domains and infrastructure.
- The report estimates overall recovery needs at 2.72 billion US dollars, or 179,768.65 billion gourdes.
- Matthew affected more than 2 million people in the hit departments, including 1,346,363 directly affected people and 678,969 women.
Prepared by the Government of the Republic of Haiti with the joint support of the United Nations system, the European Union, the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, and dated 31 January 2017, this is the full post-disaster needs assessment for Hurricane Matthew. A PDNA is the standard instrument through which a government and the international financial institutions arrive at an agreed figure for damage, losses and recovery needs across every sector, and it becomes the reference document for reconstruction financing. At 100 pages it is the authoritative multi-sector account of Matthew's cost, and the corpus did not previously hold it - the sectoral and thematic Matthew material already held sits underneath this document rather than replacing it.
How to cite
Government of Haiti; United Nations; European Union; Inter-American Development Bank (IDB); World Bank, 2017, Post-Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA): Hurricane Matthew, https://agripubhaiti.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/EvaluationBesoinPostCatastropheCycloneMathieu-PDNA-31012017-SM.pdf