Cooperation between non-governmental organizations and the State in the matter of flood risk management in the Czech Republic

Dostál, Jakub

doi:10.2495/friar120021

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“…The NGOs use volunteers for these activities. Results from previous research (Dostál [19]) indicate that the engagement of NGOs and volunteers in the IRS is both theoretically possible and implemented in practice. Volunteer firefighters and paramedics are usually directly involved in rescue operations, and the "standard" volunteers are involved in flood clean up or in providing humanitarian aid, with the NGOs mediating their assistance often involved in regional or municipal emergency plans.…”

Section: The Role Of Volunteers In Irsmentioning

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Volunteers in emergency management: an investment in the future?

Dostál¹,

Balarinová²

2013

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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There are currently two interconnected and conflicting challenges in many countries in the world: emergency and disaster preparedness and the public finance crisis. Volunteers are a valuable and necessary resource for emergency and disaster management. This paper deals with various experiences and emergencies in the Czech Republic in which the nonprofit sector is significantly involved. The aim of the paper is to identify the scope of Czech emergency volunteering and its role in the national Integrated Rescue System (IRS). The Czech IRS is a well-established system based partly on volunteers. The volunteer-to-professional ratio is nearly 12 to 1 for firefighters and about 3.6 to 1 for the mountain rescue service; the water rescue service consists exclusively of volunteers. Moreover, hundreds or thousands of people volunteer during large floods. The scope of volunteer engagement during emergency situations can also be illustrated through estimates of its economic value. The Czech Republic saves public finances for operational expenditures of parties of the IRS, because these costs could be lowered with volunteer participation. It is possible to consider past investments in emergency volunteering as investments in the high-functioning IRS. Analogically, current investments in emergency volunteering can and should be considered as investments in sustaining the current activities of the IRS. The Czech model should be explored more thoroughly; it could be interesting for other countries with problems in emergency and disaster response, especially countries that need to reduce public expenditures.

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Volunteers in emergency management: an investment in the future?

Dostál¹,

Balarinová²

2013

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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“…LEADER is currently organized under the European Commission's European Network for Rural Development. 3 The European Commission's philosophy behind the LEADER programme is that local development strategies should be "decided and implemented at local level by local actors" (2006,8). For the period that an average LAG will have 4 million Euro per year to support local initiatives.…”

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Regional Development and Climate Change Adaptation: A Study of the Role of Legitimacy

Thorstensen

Forsberg

Underthun

et al. 2016

European Countryside

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This paper presents results from a study of Czech Local Action Groups (LAGs), focusing on gaining knowledge about their internally perceived legitimacy and their potential role in local adaptation to climate change. Former studies on the role of governance networks in climate change adaptation have suggested that these networks' legitimacy are crucial for their success. In this article we provide an analytical framework that can be used to address different aspects of local governance networks which are important for their legitimacy and the way they are apt as instruments for climate change adaptation actions. We also present a survey among LAG members that provide empirical data that we discuss in the article. The framework and the data are discussed with reference to existing contributions in the intersection of legitimacy, governance networks and climate change adaptation. A specific aim is to provide research based recommendations for further improving LAGs as an adaptation instrument. In addition, knowledge is generated that will be interesting for further studies of similar local governance initiatives in the climate change adaptation context. Abstrakt: Tento článek prezentuje výsledky výzkumu zaměřeného na české místní akční skupiny (MAS). Výzkum byl zaměřen na získání povědomí o jejich interně vnímané legitimitě a možné roli MAS v rámci lokální adaptace na klimatickou změnu v ČR. Předchozí studie zaměřené na roli organizací podporujících dobré vládnutí v oblasti adaptace na klimatickou změnu ukazují, že legitimita těchto organizací je pro jejich úspěch naprosto klíčová. Tento článek poskytuje také vhled do analytického rámce použitelného jak pro budování legitimity, tak dalších aspektů, které mohou být vhodné pro podporu dobrého vládnutí MAS a jim podobných struktur v rámci adaptace na klimatickou změnu. Součástí článku je rozbor empirických dat z dotazníkového šetření získaných metodou survey mezi členy MAS. Analytický rámec a získaná data jsou diskutována s ohledem na již existující odborné příspěvky zaměřené na legitimitu, organizace podporující dobré vládnutí a na adaptaci na klimatickou změnu. Specifickým cílem tohoto příspěvku je poskytnout doporučení založená na vědeckém výzkumu pro zlepšování Místních akčních skupin jako nástroje pro adaptaci na klimatickou změnu. Navíc mohou být výsledky zajímavé pro další rozvoj organizací zaměřených na dobré vládnutí v oblasti adaptace na klimatickou změnu na území ČR.

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“…Financial support for emergency-directed NGOs often comes from budgets designated for emergency or disaster management. In the Czech Republic, parts of public budgets are designated for emergency management, such as regional budgets [15] and the budget of the FRS of the Czech Republic [15,16]. The basic goal of emergency management is to save lives, health, and property.…”

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Lessons of cooperation between government and non-governmental organizations in emergency management in the czech republic

Dostál¹

2015

Int. J. SAFE

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The purpose of this research is to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the current forms of cooperation between government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in emergency management in the Czech Republic, while presenting a detailed overview of the key criteria of the effective Czech model, which could be potentially used by other organizations or countries. Previous research has focused on cooperation between government and NGOs in flood risk management, but emergency management concerns more than floods. The scope has been expanded to include volunteer firefighters and rescue workers, the other NGO players in emergencies in the Czech Republic. The research presents an overview of the cooperation between the Czech government and NGOs in various forms of emergency management. Using document review and a series of interviews with emergency management experts, several aspects of cooperation were considered: formalization, timing, level, and type. The research findings demonstrate that some emergency management activities can be very effectively performed by NGOs and their volunteers. In the Czech Republic, integration into the national Integrated Rescue System guarantees a minimum standard of performance. Since volunteers work for free and their work has much lower expenses, they perform their activities in a more cost-effective way than the state. However, this is not valid for the whole emergency management system, but only for such activities that can be assigned to volunteers when there are enough willing volunteers and the NGOs and their volunteers are formally integrated into the rescue system. The Czech experience could be interesting for other countries, particularly post-communist countries, because all emergency systems work with information, and the human factor plays a role everywhere. Thus, it is concluded that some basic aspects of cooperation in Czech emergency management, focused on sharing information and strengthening mutual trust and awareness, could be considered as universal.

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Cooperation between non-governmental organizations and the State in the matter of flood risk management in the Czech Republic

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Volunteers in emergency management: an investment in the future?

Volunteers in emergency management: an investment in the future?

Regional Development and Climate Change Adaptation: A Study of the Role of Legitimacy

Lessons of cooperation between government and non-governmental organizations in emergency management in the czech republic

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