PDNAs provide governments with the relevant information for quantifying recovery needs and formulating broad strategies (EU/UNEP/World Bank/GFDRR, 2015). The findings serve as the basis for designing a resilient recovery framework and for mobilizing financial resources for implementation.

The link between the agricultural monitoring and humanitarian response mechanisms is the needs assessment process. If humanitarian assistance is to be effective, it needs to be coordinated and harmonized with households' critical decision-making period. In the current set-up of humanitarian response, the funding procedure is dependent on the formal completion of the PDNA and can considerably delay the humanitarian operation. A baseline pre-season weather risk analysis, combined with agricultural monitoring, will provide a clear indication of who will be affected. The post-disaster needs assessment window could be shifted to before disasters happen, for example done during the critical time of the growing season. This will shorten the whole process by several months. In this way, the knowledge of extreme weather events and the agricultural monitoring framework will be directly linked with humanitarian decision-making.

• Physical terms, e.g. crops/fields/livestock, goods, and productive assets such as equipment, shops/workshops/storerooms.

• Economic terms, e.g. capital stock/savings, the projected loss of income, productivity and growth.

• Environmental terms, e.g. natural resources such as water, soil quality, forest, and agricultural and pastoral land.

• Institutional and social issues, e.g. agricultural extension services and the collaboration of the MoA with related line ministries (e.g. finance, transport, environment, and disaster management agencies).