Author: International Bank of Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), The World Bank
Year of publication: 2010
Available languages: English
Type of assessment: Post-disaster risk assessment
Format of assessment: Guideline
Estimated costs for conducting: No information
Estimated duration of assessment: 2 months
To be carried out by whom: Multiple actors
Details: Government representatives, international organizations and other domestic agencies
Institutional scale of use: Multiple (see details)
Details: National, regional, community/local level (depending on data availability)
Assesment to be used by which target audience: Multiple actors
Details: State level decision makers and local decision makers
Output: Report
Region of origin: North America
Developed by which sector: Development cooperation
Applied in practice: Yes
Geographic coverage in analysis: Worldwide
Potential geographic coverage: Worldwide
Sectors covered: Not sector specific
Details: Sectors shall be chosen based on importance of human and economic activities
Method used: Mixed method approach
Description of methodology: Quantitative calculation of loss & damage through disaster, field surveys, field visits to destructed areas
Risk framework used: No explicit use of risk framework
Risk components incorporated: No information
Details: As it is not a risk assesment but a L&D assesment no risk framework is utilized
Hazards and impacts considered in the assessment: All hazards
Source of required data: Secondary (available data is used)
Details: Sectoral baseline data (data on what assets existed before the disaster); Estimation of costs for reconstruction; Estimation of impacts on sectors and long term economic development
Temporal scale: Forward looking
Participatory elements: No
Consideration of interconnectedness and -dependencies of risks: Yes
Details: Effects of disasters on long term economic development, and intersectoral effects of destruction in one sector considered
Adressing uncertainty: No
Scope of assessment: Identification of risks, assessment of impacts
Details: The analysis also incorporates strategies of how to build back better and factors in these costs for reconstruction
Economic/Non-Economic losses incorporated: Economic
Applicability for entire risk spectrum (from extreme weather events to slow onset processes): No
Recommendations for Adaptation measures included in Climate Risk Assessment: Partly
Details: Recommendations (accounting for financial needs) to build-back better are incorporated
Usefulness for political purposes: Post-disaster funds from World Bank GFDRR
Applied by whom: The World bank
Open access: Yes