Disaster and Development - Trainer's Guide - 1st edition (Disaster Management Training Programme, 57 p.): PARTS THREE AND FOUR: ASSESSING TRADE-OFFS IN INVESTING IN VULNERABILITY REDUCTION AND FORGING THE LINKS BETWEEN DISASTER AND DEVELOPMENT(45 minutes): 29. Advantages of formal quantitative methods

Disaster and Development - Trainer's Guide - 1st edition (Disaster Management Training Programme, 57 p.)

PARTS THREE AND FOUR: ASSESSING TRADE-OFFS IN INVESTING IN VULNERABILITY REDUCTION AND FORGING THE LINKS BETWEEN DISASTER AND DEVELOPMENT(45 minutes)

		25. Learning objectives
		26. Comparing development investments
		27. Definitions
		28. Estimating losses, costs and benefits
		29. Advantages of formal quantitative methods
		30. Summary
		31. Learning objectives
		32. Role of the UN and NGOs
		33. Collaborating constituencies
		34. Question
		35. Involving the affected community
		36. Question

29. Advantages of formal quantitative methods

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Review the overhead. Ask participants if they have had experience with formal cost/benefit analysis and how they have found it useful.

· Provides a standard to compare program options
· Facilitates identifying both anticipated and unanticipated options
· Identifies alternative ways to accomplish the same objective