Session 2.2: Damage Assessment
Key Learning Objectives
By the end of this session participants should be able to:
1. form an understanding of the difference between damage and need
2. explain how the different types of damage assessments and the phases to which they correspond are carried out
3. know how to design and implement a damage assessment for shelters and settlements
Key Learning Points
1. Damage does not automatically equal need
2. SAR teams are essential to preliminary damage assessment
3. The different categories of building damage
4. What defines a post-disaster needs assessment, and what defines and damage and loss assessment
Session Agenda:
1. Damage assessments
2. Damage assessment tools
3. Damage assessment implementation
Resources on this Collection
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Location: World
Sector(s):
Publisher(s): Field Coordination Support Section (INSARAG Secretariat), United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Location: World
Sector(s):
