Ayesha Saba

The government has constituted a high-level committee to oversee the post-disaster needs assessment (PDNA) in the flood and rain-hit regions of Pakistan for a transparent and coordinated recovery process. Under the committee’s guidance, the Ministry of Planning, Development & Special Initiatives is working with provinces, federal ministries, and development partners to validate assessments and plan effective recovery and reconstruction.

According to documents available with Wealth Pakistan, the planning ministry is actively engaging provinces, line ministries, development partners, and the private sector to strengthen coordination and technical support for the damage assessment process.

The ministry emphasised that PDNA will not only document the scale of flood damage but also serve as the foundation for mobilising resources and planning climate-resilient reconstruction. A meeting held recently reviewed provincial reports and confirmed an initial rapid assessment estimating the flood damage at Rs371 billion, excluding Punjab.

The planning ministry has also written to the Economic Affairs Division to engage development partners for technical validation and financial support for reconstruction efforts. The coordinated framework will focus on four key priorities: validating initial assessments, ensuring comparability across provinces, addressing technical gaps in damage and needs estimation, and identifying recovery and reconstruction requirements to guide both immediate relief and long-term resilience building.

Preliminary estimates indicate that over 6.5 million people in 70 districts have been affected by floods, with total damage reported at Rs371 billion from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, Balochistan, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan. Assessments are still underway, where floods have damaged 3.26 million acres of crops, destroyed 12,569 houses, and resulted in the loss of 10,991 livestock, causing extensive disruption to rural and urban communities.

In Punjab, the government has launched the Punjab Flood Damage Survey 2025 to document all flood-related losses and ensure fair compensation. The survey teams, comprising officials from the agriculture, livestock, and land record departments, along with personnel from the Pakistan Army, are collecting on-ground data from affected areas.

Relief operations have already facilitated the evacuation of 2.6 million people, provided medical care to 572,461 people, and rescued over 2.1 million livestock. The government has reaffirmed its commitment to conducting a credible, transparent, and collaborative PDNA to determine recovery needs and mobilise resources for medium- and long-term resilience building.

Credit: INP-WealthPk