Community capacity development and Disaster Management

The assessment is to analyze multiple hazard risks to the targeted Union councils located in hazard prone areas along the river Indus and sea to identify areas of improvement for the safer communities. The assessment entails to identify structural flaws in buildings, the availability of necessary facilities as per the international standards, functioning and role of social structures i.e. Village Disaster Management Committees (VDMCs) and Emergency Response Teams (ERTs), means to protect the villages against future disasters and preparedness at the level of Village for proper management.

Increasing globalization, increasing intense urbanization and climate changes have been linked to communities' hazards and disasters vulnerabilities reported across Africa. Less data and information are documented on national to community disaster risk workforce readiness and resilience capacity in emergency humanitarian crises interventions. The lack of coherent and integrated disaster risk analysis and preparedness, response and recovery programs implementation is a major challenged in the region for decades. This paper highlights natural and man-made emergency hazards and disasters nature and exposure, potential approaches in Africa context. Our findings showed that man-made disasters events were the most documented, uneven in their nature, pattern and trend of occurrence and exposure consequences over time. Emerging and re-emerging outbreaks (Cholera, Polio, HIV, Ebola, Influenza, Rift Valley fever and Meningitis) were the most common, followed by conflicts and hunger, floods and land-sliding disproportionately spread across Africa. We also documented differential inadequacies in effective community risk assessment to emergency management, weak community disaster risk knowledge and attitudes to poorly integrated mitigation and recovery strategies. Leveraging on digital and social media network platforms advances coupled with existing fire, emergency facilities and proven effective hazard/disaster response lessons learnt and experiences are resources in strengthening laboratory capacity and laboratory networks, scaling up proactive displaced people/refugee security and safety standards support and best practice. Strengthening the national Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction (SDRRF) stewardship and investment (2015-2030) implementation is crucial in improving evidence-based, robust, and effective disaster risk reduction (DRR) community-based programs, in ensuring emergency public health readiness and resilient response capacities and ownership strategies in Africa.

This document was produced to support Churches and emergency planners to understand the role and response of Churches in responding to major incidents and disasters, and being involved in planning for emergencies. It was the theological companion to the English Government Guidelines on Faith Communities and Civil Resilience

This paper addresses intersections of communication, technology and geography in remote areas of Western Australia. It uses verbatim accounts from fieldwork bracketing decades of
communication development to explore changes and constants in the micro-geographical exchange strategies of people living in the remote northwest of Australia. It articulates the continuing irony that the Australians who most need reliable and effective communications are those who experience the greatest difficulty in accessing them. We contend that geographical isolation and continuing problems with the reliability and reach of communication technologies in remote Western Australia have cultivated a robust community in which flexibility, resilience and interdependence redress, to some degree, the vulnerability remote communities often experience—especially in times of stress or crisis.

The paper includes historical interviews from the 1980s and contemporary (2012) interviews carried out as part of an ARC Linkage-funded project, 2012-14, with industry partner Landgate, a Western Australian government entity.

Abstrak Silaturahim dalam kegiatan diba’iyah ini dimaksudkan untuk menjaga keharmonisan hubungan masyarakat dalam bentuk kekerabatan, tetangga, maupun persaudaraan, bahkan turut pula membawa efek yang sangat positif bagi pribadi orang yang melakukannya. Silaturrahim merupakan salah satu perwujudan dari pada perintah ajaran agama islam yaitu “hablum minannass” menjalin hubungan horisontal dengan sesama manusia. Untuk mengungkapkan hal tersebut peneliti menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Sedangkan pada metode pengumpulan data, peneliti menggunakan metode wawancara, observasi, dan dokumentasi. Kemudian, metode analisis datanya menggunakan konsep dari Miles dan Huberman yaitu reduksi data, penyajian data, dan penarikan kesimpulan. Dari hasil penelitian ditemukan bahwa: 1) Adanya kegiatan diba’iyah ini dapat menambah jalinan silaturahim warga Kelurahan Paju semakin erat, hal ini dikarenakan dengan diadakannya kegiatan diba’iyah masyarakat meluangkan waktu untuk berkumpul dengan tetanggan...

Abstrak Desa merupakan unit pemerintahan terkecil yang mewujudkan pembangunan melalui pemberdayaan yang memiliki konsep dan tahapan yang bertujuan untuk kesejahteraan masyarakat. Dalam mewujudkan kesejahteraan masyarakat dapat dimulai dari komponen terkecil yaitu keluarga. Dalam kehidupan berkeluarga terdapat setiap fungsi dan tanggung jawab setiap anggota keluarga untuk mencapai kehidupan yang harmonis. Keluarga memiliki karakteristik yang berbeda-beda dengan perjalanan kehidupan yang berbeda pula. Maka dari itu penelitian ini membahas tentang fenomena yang ada di Dusun Tanggungrejo Desa Karangpatihan Kecamatan Balong Kabupaten Ponorogo tentang masyarakat tunagrahita yang diberdayakan melalui Lembaga Kesejahteraan Sosial (LKS) Rumah Harapan Mulya. Pemberdayaan ini memiliki peran dalam membentuk keluarga sakinah para tunagrahita. Penelitian yang dilakukan adalah penelitian kualitatif dengan memperhatikan teori Fungsinalisme Struktural oleh Talcott Parson yang menganalogikan bahwa ma...

This paper critiques the traditional project management (PM) approach for post-disaster reconstruction work in relation to long-term effectiveness at strengthening disaster resilience of communities. While assessments of post-disaster reconstruction projects normally occurs within a few years of the disaster this paper is based on a study of four 'good practice' reconstruction projects, 15 years after the earthquake and seven years after the flooding disaster from the Indian states of Gujarat and Bihar respectively. This extended timeframe enabled the examination of long-term outcomes related to disaster resilience of communities. The comparison of the four case study projects through extended timeframe enabled authors to articulate critical success factors contributing to project's effectiveness. The research found that the best long-term outcomes were achieved when the agencies implementing post-disaster housing reconstruction projects: 1) adopted an 'agile' approach to project planning and implementation; 2) allocated ample time for gaining and maintaining community trust; iii) provided multiple materials, technologies and skilled labour choices to ensure hazard-safety of housing, and (iv) continued community capacity building beyond the completion of the reconstruction work. These imperatives have prompted the development of a progressive, spiral model for effective post-disaster housing reconstruction project management which is presented in this paper. Classification: Empirical research paper.