Perceptions of resilience to climate-induced disasters in Mbale municipality in Uganda
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Date
2020-01-29
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Taylor and francis group
Abstract
Resilience has been raised as a core task within disaster risk
reduction frameworks, yet it remains difficult to implement these
global ideas in local communities. This study used Community
Based Resilience Analysis Approach to investigate the
components that are perceived as important in resilience and the
extent to which these components have been achieved. It
explored the trend of resilience and beneficial interventions for
building resilience as perceived by interviewed participants in
Mbale Municipality in Eastern Uganda. The study results indicate
that access to education, healthcare, employment, peace and
security were the most important components of resilience.
Respondents perceived to have progressed in accessing credit,
building productive farms and sustaining peace and security by
July 2017. However, they assessed a lack of diverse incomegenerating activities, access to insurance, food security,
employment and health care. Moreover, the study showed that
respondents from marginalised parts of the municipality
experienced decreasing resilience while respondents in other
divisions had increased resilience. These results provide contextspecific components of resilience by the local people. This can
inform the formulation of resilience indices and bear relevance for
policy-makers and practitioners to understand areas to invest
more resources to achieve resilience
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Resilience, perceived, climate change, shocks, stresses, Mbale
Citation
Oriangi, G., Albrecht, F., Bamutaze, Y., Mukwaya, P. I., Bob, N., & Pilesjö, P. (2021)