El Salvador - GFDRR
El Salvador - GFDRR
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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.