Post-Cyclone Needs Assessment: Disaster Risk Management Sector (PDNA Matthew)
- Argues the sector's case on transversality rather than on damage: losses here are smaller than in housing or agriculture, but recovery of disaster risk management supplies the risk maps, standards, indicators and coordination spaces the other sectors plan with.
- Sets total sector needs at 30,777,960 US dollars, of which 18,130,500 for emergency response capacity across the whole national territory and 7,060,700 for risk knowledge and mapping.
- Puts the largest single line at 10,000,000 dollars to bring shelters up to SPHERE standards, and the next at 4,500,000 for risk prevention plans in the cyclone-affected areas.
- Budgets the volunteer base explicitly rather than assuming it: 576,000 dollars to recruit and induct new DPC volunteer brigade members across all 144 communes and 720,000 for their first-aid training, one course per two communes.
- Programs simulation exercises at every level, 10 departmental table exercises, 10 departmental field and table exercises, 2 national exercises covering three impacted departments, and a dedicated DPC unit at 300,000 dollars to prepare and coordinate them.
- Distributes the risk knowledge component unevenly by department, Sud at 1,597,600 dollars, Nippes at 1,235,200, Nord-Ouest at 1,279,500, Sud-Est at 994,000, Ouest at 808,000 and Grand'Anse at 548,400, so the affected departments are not treated as a single block.
One of the thirteen sector volumes behind Haiti's post-disaster needs assessment for Hurricane Matthew, which crossed the Tiburon peninsula on 4 October 2016. Damage here is smaller than in housing or agriculture, and the volume argues that recovery of the sector matters for what it gives the others: risk maps, standards and indicators, plus replacement of equipment and emergency stocks lost during and after the storm. The volume follows the standard PDNA structure: context, effects of the hurricane, recovery objectives and sector needs, human and social impact, sector priorities, and the sector policies and constraints that bear on recovery. It was published as approved by the ministry, with a notice that any divergence from the consolidated PDNA report of 31 January 2017 is unintentional, so it is the place to look for how the sector arrived at its figures rather than the summary in the consolidated report.
How to cite
Ministry of the Interior and Local Government (MICT), 2016, Post-Cyclone Needs Assessment: Disaster Risk Management Sector (PDNA Matthew), https://www.undp.org/fr/haiti/publications/rapport-sectoriel-gestions-des-risques-et-des-desastres