Role of social protection in disaster management in Sri Lanka

Wickramasinghe, Kanchana

doi:10.4038/sljss.v35i1-2.7297

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“…Social support initiatives and social protection can be defined as anticipating action which can contribute to future risk reduction and support the bounce back better capacity to the disaster-affected community. Wickramasinghe (2013) compares the significant impact of the disaster on poor and rich households in her study interrelation of social protection in Sri Lanka on disaster management via programs and policies. She describes Sri Lanka has witnessed a striking increase in both the frequency and intensity of natural disasters over the last few decades.…”

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The Local Supporting Approaches Scaling up the Capacity of Reconstruction in Nepal

Chongbang

2022

IJEBM

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Disaster reflects a multi-fold impact on vulnerable communities such as children, women, and people living with disabilities. The study identifies the multiplier impact of hazard induce disasters, Covid019 pandemic, and regular strikes into poor and marginalized communities. Tried to be unmasking the effectiveness of local support initiatives as social recovery support from the neighbor, communities, non-state actors, and the state. The paper brings out how the social support, and protection practices can scale up its cost in disaster recovery initiates in disaster-affected communities in Gandaki province, Nepal. An online (google) based survey form was developed, and distributed to potential frontline workers, NGO staff, INGO staff, and UN staff based on their project area. Respondents were randomly divided into two groups (local support, and external support) and asked for their supporting practices while the disaster has occurred at the local level, and responses were analyzed at the explanatory level through the regression. While testing the hypothesis that local social support leads to higher resilience capacity in the disaster-affected household with compare to external support, which results showed that local level support was better with comparing of external support during disaster response and recovery. Study results suggested that household, neighbor, and local community support was quick, applicable, and easier to adopt than a comparison of external supporters. Based on the study, further development intervention should be centered on the capacity to strengthen local households, neighborhoods, community-based organizations, and local states rather than expecting external support. The study paper explores the local supporting practices on reconstruction and recovery, which is the novelty approaches in local supporting engagement on speedy recovery initiatives in Nepal.

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The Local Supporting Approaches Scaling up the Capacity of Reconstruction in Nepal

Chongbang

2022

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“…Based on available data, between 2009 and 2018, about 1,98 million people were affected every year by flooding, droughts, and landslides (Basnayake et al, 2019). Moreover, the distribution of impacts depends on the level of physical, social, and economic vulnerability to natural disasters of a given area (Wickramasinghe, 2014). It highlights the need to figure out how to be more disaster resilient in the future (Amaratunga et al, 2020).…”

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Gender and Disability Inclusion in Post-Disaster Rebuilding ‘Build Back Better’ Programmes in Sri Lanka: A Literature Review

Mendis¹,

Thayaparan²,

Kaluarachchi³

2020

Conference Proceedings - FARU 2020

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In the last decade, many South Asian developing countries have suffered natural disasters. Severe disaster destruction results in an overwhelming need to rebuild housing and infrastructure within a brief amount of time. United Nation Development Programme has sought to make this reconstruction program a "Build Back Better (BBB)" opportunity, hence gender inequality and marginalisation of people with disabilities remain a problem in many countries. Although the international community has sought to promote this resilience and inclusion, the Post-Disaster Rebuilding (PDR) process still overlooks these sectors of society and their needs. Therefore, this paper aims to bring in literature synthesis addressing gender and disability inclusion in PDR ‘BBB’ programmes in Sri Lanka. Besides, involvement in the mitigation of vulnerability and community resilience to disaster risks and relocation was found to play a significant role. Vulnerability and the risk of disasters can be dramatically reduced by ensuring a culture of disaster prevention and resilience for all segments of populations, particularly rural areas, girls and women, and the disabled. All aspects of socially inclusive, formal, and non-formal commitments are important to take their desires and requirement into consideration.

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“…Past studies related to drought vulnerability in Sri Lanka were limited to a particular geographical area and aggregated data (Sakeena 2014;Eriyagama and Smakhtin 2011;Chithranayana and Punyawardena 2013). Further, existing literatures failed to consider differences in organizational structure of different irrigation systems and capacity of farmers under different irrigation schemes (Wickramasinghe 2014;Chithranayana and Punyawardena 2013;Lazarus 2011) This study overcomes the above limitations of the existing literature on drought vulnerability and adaptation of Dry Zone farmers in Sri Lanka by employing a large farmer level data set to understand the difference in drought vulnerability of farmers and its relationship with drought adaptation.…”

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Do drought vulnerable farmers adapt more to drought? a case of dry zone paddy farmers in Sri Lanka

2018

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Frequent droughts in Sri Lanka have caused production losses in considerable amounts due to reduced water supply for irrigation. Drought adaptation has become imperative. It is important to understand the drought vulnerability and adaptation of farmers in order to propose amicable solutions. This study assessed drought vulnerability of farmers in major and minor irrigation schemes and the relationship of drought vulnerability with adaptation level. Secondary data from Sri Lankan Environmental and Agricultural Decision-making Survey (SEADS) carried out under the Agricultural Decision Making and Adaptation to Precipitation Trends in Sri Lanka project (ADAPT-SL) and meteorological data were used for the study. Based on the definition of InterGovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the integrated approach was used to conceptualize the framework of drought vulnerability where a vulnerability index was defined using adaptive capacity, sensitivity and exposure to drought. IPCC's concept of adaptation was used to measure the adaptation level. Correlation tests were done to find the relationship among vulnerability and adaptation level and mean comparison tests were carried out to compare farmers in the major and minor irrigation schemes. The study finds that, while farmers in major irrigation scheme are low in drought exposure they are high in adaptive capacity and sensitivity. In contrast, farmers in minor irrigation scheme while high in drought exposure are low in adaptive capacity and sensitivity. According to correlation tests, we find that the vulnerable farmers are low in adaptation level. The mean comparison results showed that the farmers in minor irrigation scheme are highly vulnerable but show low adaptation level to drought than the farmers in major irrigation scheme.

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Role of social protection in disaster management in Sri Lanka

Cited by 11 publications

References 3 publications

The Local Supporting Approaches Scaling up the Capacity of Reconstruction in Nepal

The Local Supporting Approaches Scaling up the Capacity of Reconstruction in Nepal

Gender and Disability Inclusion in Post-Disaster Rebuilding ‘Build Back Better’ Programmes in Sri Lanka: A Literature Review

Do drought vulnerable farmers adapt more to drought? a case of dry zone paddy farmers in Sri Lanka

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