The post disaster needs assessment(PDNA) assesses the impact of the April 25, 2015 earthquakein Nepal and defines a recovery strategy. In the analysis,damage is defined as the cost to replace durable physicalassets (buildings, equipment, facilities, and machinery)that were damaged or destroyed. Loss refers to changes infinancial flows due to the temporary absence ofinfrastructure, increased or new demands (operational costs)due to the disaster, lost revenues, higher expenditures, andthe cost of maintaining service provision. In addition toreconstruction costs, recovery needs are identified to buildback better and are costed accordingly. Each sector has alsoexamined issues of vulnerability and marginalization, andthe need for specific targeting in the implementation of therecovery strategy. The report covers the following sectors:social; productive; infrastructure; and cross‐cutting.