Practices and Challenges of Disaster Risk Management in Urban Area; the Case of Addis Ababa City, Ethiopia
No Thumbnail Available
Date
2020-06
Authors
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The risk of disasters in urban areas due to natural and man-made hazards is increasing in
frequency and intensity nationwide. It is now widely recognized that extreme weather events that
all become a regular part of life in the future. Bearing this in mind, the main purpose of this
study was investigating the practice and challenge of Disaster Risk Management in Addis Ababa
city. To this end, the pre-disaster, during disaster and post disaster practice of three DRM
institutions were compared. There collaborative traditions and challenges were also
investigated. The study employed descriptive research design. Questionnaire, interview and
document analysis research methods were employed to collect data. Purposive sampling
techniques were employed to select questioner respondents and key informant. Data analysis
included explanatory, simple descriptive statistics and comparative (one-way between-groups
ANOVA) techniques to analyze the qualitative and quantitative data, respectively. The result of
the study showed that the significance values of pre-disaster and during disaster practices are
better practice in the institution but there is a difference among their on post disaster. Based on
the result of this study, the following issues are recommended: fire and disaster risk management
commission fire code should be ratified. Most importantly, Institutional collaboration must be in
place so as to serve Addis Ababa City to reduce the impact of disaster.
Description
Keywords
Disaster, Risk, management, pre-disaster, during disaster, post disaster, collaboration,challenge