GIRRL power! Participatory Action Research for building girl-led community resilience in South Africa

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kylah Forbes-Genade ◽  
Dewald van Niekerk
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Participatory Action

This article aims to crystallize the contributions of the Girls in Risk Reduction Leadership (GIRRL) Program in building resilient communities through the integration of adolescent girls into local level decision-making and action for reducing disaster risk. Disadvantaged adolescent girls carry a double burden derived from vulnerability associated with gender and age within the context of disaster risk. Girls often face greater danger than boys or adults and are perceived as powerless. Their needs go unheard and capacities ignored because of their exclusion from decision-making and social participation. Efforts to reduce risk must be inclusive of the needs of vulnerable populations. Despite global calls for the inclusion of women, children, and youth in risk reduction policy and planning, its application has been insufficient. The GIRRL Program, utilizing Participatory Action Research, helped to catalyze the capacities of girls through personal empowerment to drive the agenda for inclusive involvement of vulnerable populations to build community resilience. The paper will document the contributions of the GIRRL Program to improving community resilience through engaging decision-making, facilitating multi-sectoral understanding of vulnerability and risk, validating the importance of girls in risk reduction, creating capacity to manage girl-led processes, and strengthening risk reduction through local girl-led activities.

scholarly journals Empowering women through participatory action research in community-based disaster risk reduction efforts

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 ◽  
pp. 101763 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna A. Ruszczyk ◽  
Bijay Krishna Upadhyay ◽  
Yim Ming (Connie) Kwong ◽  
Omkala Khanal ◽  
Louise J. Bracken ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Based

scholarly journals Blending the Principles of Participatory Action Research Approach and Elements of Grounded Theory in a Disaster Risk Reduction Education Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 160940692095896
Author(s):  
Ian Phil Canlas ◽  
Mageswary Karpudewan
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Participatory Action

This paper presents an exemplar of blending the principles of participatory action research and elements of grounded theory in a disaster risk reduction education case study. It illustrates and describes a modified methodological approach that was used during the needs’ assessment and analysis phase of a multiphase study on teaching of disaster risk reduction in science among public schools in Biliran Province, the Philippines. The approach was conceived upon considering the overarching aim of the study which is the effective, efficient, inclusive, and proactive teaching of disaster risk reduction in science, the complex nature of the disaster risk reduction education, and the multiple stakeholders involved in disaster risk reduction among public schools. Results revealed that the modified methodological approach provided a co-learning environment for both participants and researchers, created an opportunity to maximize participation toward generating knowledge, prioritizing problems, and conceptualizing solutions, strengthened the data collection and analysis process, hence ensuring quality in the entire research process, and addressed the participation issues pointed out in grounded theory studies. The modified methodological approach may be relevant and applicable to similar studies that are complex and emerging like the teaching of disaster risk reduction in science.

Community-based Disaster Management and Its Salient Features: A Policy Approach to People-centred Risk Reduction in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-160 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Abul Kalam Azad ◽  
M. Salim Uddin ◽  
Sabrina Zaman ◽  
Mirza Ali Ashraf
Keyword(s):  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Government

The discourse of disaster management has undergone significant change in recent years, shifting from relief and response to disaster risk reduction (DRR) and community-based management. Organisations and vulnerable countries engaged in DRR have moved from a reactive, top-down mode to proactive, community-focused disaster management. In this article, we focus on how national disaster management policy initiatives in Bangladesh are implementing community-based approaches at the local level and developing cross-scale partnerships to reduce disaster risk and vulnerability, thus enhancing community resilience to disasters. We relied chiefly on secondary data, employing content analysis for reviewing documents, which were supplemented by primary data from two coastal communities in Kalapara Upazila in Patuakhali District. Our findings revealed that to address the country’s vulnerabilities to natural disasters, the Government of Bangladesh has developed and implemented numerous national measures and policies over the years with the aim of strengthening community-focused risk reduction, decentralising disaster management, developing cross-scale partnerships and enhancing community resilience. Communities are working together to achieve an all-hazard management goal, accepting ownership to reduce vulnerability and actively participating in risk-reduction strategies at multiple levels. Community-based disaster preparedness activities are playing a critical role in developing their adaptive capacity and resilience to disasters. Further policy and research are required for a closer examination of the dynamics of community-based disaster management, the role of local-level institutions and community organisations in partnerships and resilience building for successful disaster management.

From Substitute to Supported Decision-Making: Participatory Action Research on the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 104420732110554
Author(s):  
Benoît Eyraud ◽  
Iuliia Taran
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Persons With Disabilities ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
The Relationship

In this article, we present findings from a participatory action-research program in France on the exercise of human rights and supported and substitute decision-making, inspired by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (“CRPD”). Bringing together persons with the lived experience of disability, academics, and health and social care and support professionals, the project used the method of “experience-based construction of public problem” to transform experience into collective expertise. This enabled the exploration of support that people in vulnerable situations, whose capacity to exercise their human rights has weakened, need to make decisions in their lives and participate meaningfully in public debate. The relationship between the awareness of rights and exercise of rights is discussed. We argue for the need to balance out the positions of different contributors in participatory action research, in a reasoned manner, by recognizing the scientific and citizen-based participation of all partners.

scholarly journals The framing of decision making support systems on increasing community resilience in disaster risk reduction efforts: a conceptual approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 331 ◽  
pp. 04012
Author(s):  
Putranesia Thaha ◽  
Febrin Anas Ismail
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Risk Reduction ◽  
Disaster Risk Reduction ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Regulatory System ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Conceptual Approach

This research begins by comprehensively exploring previous research related to community resilience and what steps are used to increase community resilience in reducing disaster risk. Conceptually, it is known that the fatigue model accumulated by the time system, infrastructure system, governance system, regulatory system, and hazard system for disaster risk reduction is often associated with weakening community resilience. It is often associated with catastrophic events, which are sometimes predictable and unpredictable. In manual decision-making, people are aware of the inconsistency of subjective decisions. A decision support system hypothesizes that it will take less time to explore data to make faster and more informed decisions. As a result of this concept, it is possible to reduce the number of wrong choices when dealing with disaster risk reduction issues. In terms of disaster risk reduction, the power of decision support systems is discussed in this paper to find a framework for its effectiveness as relative decision making will differ on different dimensions of Resilience.

The crc of Unaccompanied Asylum Seekers in Finland

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-164
Author(s):  
Mervi Kaukko
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
The Right ◽  
Past Experiences

According to the un Convention on the Right of a Child (crc), all children in Finland have the right to participate in decision-making concerning them. This article shows how the conceptualisation of childhood affects the implementation of the crc, especially Article 12 on participation, focusing on unaccompanied asylum-seeking children in Finland. Universalist notions of childhood and children’s participatory rights overlook the specific socio-historical realities in which these rights exist. Therefore, this article adopts an intersectional view, in which children are seen not as future adults or citizens but as current rights-holders, and acknowledges the complexity of children’s reality where ethnicity, gender and past experiences are interrelated with the conception of childhood. Based on participatory action research with 12 unaccompanied girls, this article shows that they have justified views on their rights during the asylum process, and that those views should be heard and acted upon.

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