Post disaster damage and loss assessment is an effective tool to identify the impact of disaster to ensure the timely recovery and reconstruction planning and implementation by the Government. In the aftermath of disaster events, governments are forced to reallocate scarce resources for disaster recovery, sometimes delaying or even halting important long-term programs that have contributed to the growth of the country or the particular regions. Proper understanding of the actual economic impact of the disaster events is of great importance to the government to develop plans and programs to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and recover from the adverse natural events.

?1. Review of existing damage and loss assessment procedures viz-a-viz international practices 2. Develop a uniform/standard methodology for damage and loss assessments relevant to the Sri Lanka context 3. Develop simplified sectoral reporting formats, baseline data formats for collecting damage and loss data 4. Develop online damage and loss data reporting system 5. Develop guidelines and standard operating systems for offline damage and loss reporting system 6. Train a panel of experts in damage and loss assessment reporting system through training of trainers

1. Document describing the internationally-accepted concepts and methodology for the estimation of disaster effects, assessment of impacts, and estimation of post-disaster needs for recovery and disaster resilience reconstruction covering all sectors of economic 2. Set of guideline notes for each sector outlining standardized and updated DaLA methodology on a step-be-step procedure with standard forms for data collection and processing 3. A working online DaLA reporting system 4. Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs) and User Manual for the System 5. A pool of trainers composed of Sri Lankan experts who would be duly trained on the DaLA methodology and its reporting system