Efundja 作为 Cuvelai-Etosha 盆地农村社区的风险驱动因素和变革推动者。

IF 1.3 Q2 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY
Jamba-Journal of Disaster Risk Studies Pub Date : 2024-10-31 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI:10.4102/jamba.v16i1.1677
Loide V Shaamhula, Hendrik A P Smit, Justin D S van der Merwe
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洪水是影响纳米比亚北部库维莱-埃托沙盆地的长期主要风险因素之一。这种破坏性事件在当地被称为 "Efundja",尤其对资源有限的农村人口造成负面影响。他们大多是偏远社区的自给自足的农民,洪水长期切断了他们与田地、邻居和基本服务的联系,对他们的家园、收成、牲畜和一般生活方式造成了严重破坏。本研究调查了经常受 Efundja 影响的农村社区的影响和应对机制。通过访谈和焦点小组,从四组受访者那里收集了数据。他们是受灾农村社区的户主、社区领袖、地方议员和参与减灾工作的国家政府官员。这确保了对影响的全面了解:尽管制定了国家灾害风险管理战略,但国家灾害应对机制只是被动地应对灾害,而不是积极主动地应对灾害。结果表明,该战略没有得到充分实施,实施的部分是自上而下的方式。受访者报告说,Efundja 带来了广泛的影响,他们普遍无法有效应对 Efundja,而且在有关减少风险问题的讨论中也没有他们的声音。文章最后提出了对当前灾害风险管理战略的补充,并根据研究结果提出了若干建议。如果这些建议在纳米比亚灾害风险管理战略中得到实施,作为风险驱动因素的埃芬贾也将成为变革的动力。
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Efundja as a risk driver and change agent for the Cuvelai-Etosha basin rural communities.

Floods are one of the persistent major risk drivers impacting the Cuvelai-Etosha basin of northern Namibia. Locally known as Efundja, this disruptive event negatively impacts particularly the rural population, who have limited resources to combat its effects. Being mostly subsistence farmers in isolated communities, the floods wreak havoc with their homesteads, harvests, animals, and general way of life by cutting them off from their fields, neighbours, and essential services for prolonged periods. This study investigates the impacts and coping mechanisms of rural communities regularly affected by Efundja. Data was collected from four groups of respondents through interviews and focus groups. These were heads of households in the affected rural communities, the community leaders, local councillors and national government officials involved in disaster mitigation. This ensured a comprehensive picture of the impacts.

Contribution: Despite the presence of a national disaster risk management strategy, the national disaster response mechanism rather reactively responds to the hazard as opposed to being proactive. Results indicates that the strategy is not fully implemented and the parts that are implemented functions as a top-down approach. Respondents reported a wide range of impacts and a general inability to effectively cope with Efundja, coupled with an absence of their voices in deliberations about risk reduction matters. Additions to the current disaster risk management strategy is proposed and several recommendations derived from the research results concludes the article. Should these recommendations be implemented into the Namibian disaster risk management strategy, Efundja as risk driver will also become an agent of change.

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Jamba-Journal of Disaster Risk Studies
Jamba-Journal of Disaster Risk Studies SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-
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