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128 | <strong>El</strong> <strong>Salvador</strong>: Damage, Loss, and Needs Assesment<br />

required to introduce quality improvements, mitigation-oriented construction regulations, and the expected<br />

value of multi-year inflation throughout the period adopted for reconstruction.<br />

The process described above is illustrated in Graph 14, which shows how recovery needs are estimated<br />

on the basis of the value of losses, and how reconstruction needs are estimated on the basis of the<br />

value of duly added damages.<br />

GRAPH 14. USE OF DAMAGES AND LOSSES TO ESTIMATE RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION NEEDS<br />

120<br />

(in millions of US$)<br />

100<br />

80<br />

Recovery<br />

Program<br />

60<br />

40<br />

Losses<br />

Damages<br />

20<br />

0<br />

Transport Environment Agriculture Water & Housing Industry Commerce Education Health<br />

Sanitation<br />

Reconstruction<br />

Program<br />

Source: Disaster Assessment Unit, CEPAL.<br />

The needs estimate encompasses all sectors of the economy at their different levels, as previously<br />

stated; these are separated for execution by both the public and private sectors. Thus, it is a combination<br />

of State interventions and private-sector initiatives.<br />

The CEPAL methodology makes it possible to identify and quantify the total recovery and reconstructions<br />

needs for the entire country, divided into sectors of economic and social activity. Because this methodology<br />

is based on the application of the national accounts system, used by all of world’s countries, its<br />

disaggregation in geographic or geopolitical terms can only reach the level of the country’s departments<br />

and municipalities. Therefore, the needs assessment has been complemented by the procedure used by<br />

UNDP/BCPR to estimate early recovery needs at community level.

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