Disaster Resilience Community: Examination of Key Success Factors

MMJD 1263 Disaster Education and Preparedness for Social Resilience

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By:

Khairul Hisyam Kamarudin, PhD23 May 2017

By the end of this lecture, you should be able to:

• Identify and access the key successfactors for disaster resilient community

• Determine the importance of communityplanning process and inputs in disasterresilient community

1 2 3 4 5Step Step Step Step Step

Identify

community

needs and

readiness

Identify “local

champion”

Identify

community

organization

Integration of

activitiesDelivery

quality

products and

services

Source: Kamarudin (2016: 71-72)

1Step

Identify

community

needs and

readiness

First and foremost, always remember, what researcher think is good, not

necessarily needed by the community!

Need to identify state of local resources (culture, nature, economic practice,

social)

Need to identify community attitude (ladder?) and readiness towards DRM

Obtain information on local knowledge and skills regarding DRM

Information on available capital (financial strengths etc.) – simple SWOT

Educate and prepare the community for the DRM project:

Organizing workshop; C2C, training needed, plan activities, linkages with

surrounding potentials etc.

2Step

Identify “local

champion”

LC = local leader(s) who can command respect

Posses certain leadership quality such as:

Visionary

Risk taker

Passion & Patient

Committed & perseverance

Innovative

Can come in various forms – voluntarily to lead the project,

appointed by community through consensus or self-appointed

spokesperson

Dedicated

Resilient

Good communication

Proactive

Disciplined

3Step

Identify

community

organization

Study current/existing organization (e.g. JKKK, CDERT-C etc.) – look at

the nature of organization (simple or complex?) and its potential to be

linked with future development

Identify who running the organization (LC or conventional kind of

leadership?)

Identify role of local organization and participation from local stakeholders

(youths, women, religious bodies, entrepreneurs, NGOs, government

officials, etc.)

Identify how community organization generate income to fund their

operations and expenditures?

What would be the main objective of organization and their visions/targets

(how their vision could support future development?)

4Step

Integration of

activities

Establishment of partnerships for DRM programs at local level – current

status?

Adoption of integrated approach?

With other local socio-economic sectors (dynamic relationships)

Not only “to develop” or “to rejuvenate or “ to uplift” but also to protect

nature, conservation and ethical development agenda in wider context

Planning suitable activities under such project – what type of solutions to be

adopted? Type of services to be offered? How to manage and run the DRM

project?

Identify strategies for communication and access to information and aid:

ICT as vital communication tool

Understand channel of distribution of info and aid

Leverage on existing networking

5Step

Delivery

quality

products and

services

DRM projects development – for each project, local organization (+LC)

need to identify within 4 cycles of DRM (1) type of suitable activities, (2)

suitable facilities to be provided, (3) ensure provision of basic amenities, (4)

identify who will carry maintenance works, (5) accessibility and connectivity

of the project with wider context, etc.

Authenticity of services and products offered:

Uniqueness?

General application?

Educational value to society?

Giving good memory and experience?

Suitable for general application elsewhere?

Can the project at the end, deliver quality products/outcomes?

Can deliver quality services (breed local disaster managers)?