How Can Practitioners Support Citizen Volunteers in Disaster Risk Reduction? Insight From “Good and Ready” in Aotearoa New Zealand

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aut.relation.endpage387
aut.relation.issue3
aut.relation.journalInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Science
aut.relation.startpage374
aut.relation.volume15
dc.contributor.authorLe Dé, Loïc
dc.contributor.authorRonoh, Steve
dc.contributor.authorKyu, Ei Mon Thinn
dc.contributor.authorRive, Brigitte
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-12T00:23:58Z
dc.date.available2024-11-12T00:23:58Z
dc.date.issued2024-06-12
dc.description.abstractGlobal and national policy frameworks emphasize the importance of people’s participation and volunteers’ role in disaster risk reduction. While research has extensively focused on volunteers in disaster response and recovery, less attention has been paid on how organizations involved in disaster risk management can support volunteers in leading and coordinating community-based disaster risk reduction. In 2019, the New Zealand Red Cross piloted the Good and Ready initiative in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand, with the objective to empower local people in resilience building with a focus on volunteers and community participation. This research examined the positive and negative outcomes of Good and Ready and investigated volunteers’ experiences in the disaster resilience initiative. It involved the codesign of a questionnaire-based survey using participatory methods with Good and Ready volunteers, the dissemination of the survey to gather volunteers’ viewpoints, and a focus group discussion with participatory activities with Red Cross volunteers. The findings highlight that a key challenge lies in finding a balance between a program that provides flexibility to address contextual issues and fosters communities’ ownership, versus a prescriptive and standardized approach that leaves little room for creativity and self-initiative. It pinpoints that supporting volunteers with technical training is critical but that soft skills training such as coordinating, communicating, or facilitating activities at the local level are needed. It concludes that the sustainability of Good and Ready requires understanding and meeting volunteers’ motivations and expectations and that enhancing partnerships with local emergency management agencies would strengthen the program.
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Disaster Risk Science, ISSN: 2095-0055 (Print); 2192-6395 (Online), Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 15(3), 374-387. doi: 10.1007/s13753-024-00563-9
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s13753-024-00563-9
dc.identifier.issn2095-0055
dc.identifier.issn2192-6395
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10292/18281
dc.languageen
dc.publisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC
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dc.subject37 Earth Sciences
dc.subject3709 Physical Geography and Environmental Geoscience
dc.subjectHealth Disparities
dc.subjectMinority Health
dc.subjectClinical Research
dc.subject11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
dc.subject1801 Law
dc.subject3709 Physical geography and environmental geoscience
dc.titleHow Can Practitioners Support Citizen Volunteers in Disaster Risk Reduction? Insight From “Good and Ready” in Aotearoa New Zealand
dc.typeJournal Article
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