Policy implementation: Assessing institutional coordination and communication for flood warning in Namibia

Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies

 
 
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Title Policy implementation: Assessing institutional coordination and communication for flood warning in Namibia
 
Creator Jose Moises, Deolfa R. Kgabi, Nnenesi A. Kunguma, Olivia
 
Subject Disaster Risk Management; Law; Environmental Science DRR streamlining; governance; institutions; coordination; policy implementation; early warning systems.
Description An effective institutional coordination and communication are essential determinants of community disaster resilience capacities and successful execution of disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies. Several international agreements endorse adopting consolidated, decentralised, participatory approaches to manage hydrometeorological hazards. Yet, the capacity of local governments to develop and implement effective disaster risk reduction strategies remains inconsistent and relatively unknown. In its quest to achieve sustainable economic development, Namibia has developed a DRR legislative framework and enlisted a central body to execute the strategic policy for disaster disruption mitigation and national resilience building. This study adopts a qualitative case study approach to assess the role of the central disaster risk management institution in establishing effective institutional coordination and communication structures for successful flood early warning system operations. Based on its legislative mandate, the study presents a hierarchically contextualised account of the institutions’ empirical progress in DRR streamlining.Contribution: The study identifies bureaucracy, limited institutional capacities, inadequate funding and response and relief prioritisation as major challenges to system efficacy. It provides directives for better institutional coordination and communication to reduce future harm.
 
Publisher AOSIS
 
Contributor European Commission
Date 2024-07-31
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion — Interview
Format text/html application/epub+zip text/xml application/pdf
Identifier 10.4102/jamba.v16i1.1534
 
Source Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies; Vol 16, No 1 (2024); 10 pages 1996-1421 2072-845X
 
Language eng
 
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https://jamba.org.za/index.php/jamba/article/view/1534/3027 https://jamba.org.za/index.php/jamba/article/view/1534/3028 https://jamba.org.za/index.php/jamba/article/view/1534/3029 https://jamba.org.za/index.php/jamba/article/view/1534/3030
 
Coverage Kabbe Constituency, Namibia — Namibian
Rights Copyright (c) 2024 Deolfa R. Jose Moises, Nnenesi A. Kgabi, Olivia Kunguma https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
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