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[O3-16-01] The Factors Regulate to Community Participation in Sustainable Disaster Recovery Program: An Experience of Cyclone Aila Disaster Affected Coastal People Bangladesh
Keywords:Community participation, Factors, Sustainable disaster recovery, Bangladesh
Community participation is crucial for sustainable disaster recovery. The philosophy of Build Back Better in sustainable disaster recovery has emerged in the early 90s and progressed by the United Nations office of the Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Sendai Framework of Action (2015-2030). Bangladesh ranked 7th top disaster-affected country in the world in recent climate risk index (2019). However, Bangladesh has shown remarkable progress in disaster preparedness, response policy, and planning, but the disaster recovery phase is still remaining weak and ignore in national policy and planning.
This study aim was to identify the factors regulate to community participation in disaster recovery GO and NGO,s program and provide a model to strengthen the local and national strategies to promote bottom-up participation in a disaster recovery program for sustainability.
The study employed a convergent parallel mixed method design where the pragmatic paradigm and concurrent strategies applied in data collection, analysis, and interface. The study interviewed 230 Aila affected people, who participated in the government and non-government recovery program. In addition, a total 20 in-depth interview, 10 key informant interviews, and 2 focus group discussion were conducted for qualitative data. The study had developed a semi-structured questionnaire for quantitative and 3 different checklists for an in-depth interview, KII, and FGD, which was submitted to the University of Malaya Research Ethics Committee (UMREC) for getting ethical approval of the study.
Findings reveal that community participation in GO and NGO,s recovery program can be defined as passive participation. Because of project participant has no or limited access to project related decision making, while they have participated mostly in the project related information and consultation. The study identified eight dominant factors namely, disaster experience and vulnerability, resources, coordination, implementation strategies, ignorance, social capital, commitment and expectation of the community regulate to community participation in the disaster recovery program. In addition, leadership capacity, stakeholder power, political wishes, and power structure influence are also predictor to community participation in the recovery program. The study findings argue that to promote bottom-up participation, collaboration, and integration between GO and NGOs recovery program needed to improve for updating the existing policy or adopting a new policy. The proposition of the study developed from the expert level consultation that in the developing country context the “time paradox” in the disaster management administration has created the new challenge for adopting new policy and planning in the sustainable disaster recovery.
This study aim was to identify the factors regulate to community participation in disaster recovery GO and NGO,s program and provide a model to strengthen the local and national strategies to promote bottom-up participation in a disaster recovery program for sustainability.
The study employed a convergent parallel mixed method design where the pragmatic paradigm and concurrent strategies applied in data collection, analysis, and interface. The study interviewed 230 Aila affected people, who participated in the government and non-government recovery program. In addition, a total 20 in-depth interview, 10 key informant interviews, and 2 focus group discussion were conducted for qualitative data. The study had developed a semi-structured questionnaire for quantitative and 3 different checklists for an in-depth interview, KII, and FGD, which was submitted to the University of Malaya Research Ethics Committee (UMREC) for getting ethical approval of the study.
Findings reveal that community participation in GO and NGO,s recovery program can be defined as passive participation. Because of project participant has no or limited access to project related decision making, while they have participated mostly in the project related information and consultation. The study identified eight dominant factors namely, disaster experience and vulnerability, resources, coordination, implementation strategies, ignorance, social capital, commitment and expectation of the community regulate to community participation in the disaster recovery program. In addition, leadership capacity, stakeholder power, political wishes, and power structure influence are also predictor to community participation in the recovery program. The study findings argue that to promote bottom-up participation, collaboration, and integration between GO and NGOs recovery program needed to improve for updating the existing policy or adopting a new policy. The proposition of the study developed from the expert level consultation that in the developing country context the “time paradox” in the disaster management administration has created the new challenge for adopting new policy and planning in the sustainable disaster recovery.