Abstract
The Disaster Risk Management policy and strategy of Gambia’s National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) have technical challenges and require knowledge creation to enhance capacities to lessen the adverse effect of risks and probabilities of disasters in The Gambia. Also, limited or no resources and leadership support to knowledge creation. The research aimed to assess the current condition of knowledge creation process in NDMA on socialisation-sharing experiences from tacit knowledge, externalisation-voicing tacit to explicit, combination-structuring explicit, and internalisation-expressing explicit to tacit (SECI) and role of leadership in the knowledge creation process. Detailed interviews, questionnaires, and WhatsApp call employed with four questions targeted five staff informants from NDMA and eight partner institutions with one informant from each. The research adopted a qualitative case study and content analysis to analyse the data using Voyant tools looking at the subject and concept. The research found that SECI has unearthed NDMA strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats, and leadership bureaucracy coupled with fear factors to build capacities leading to coup d’état for positions. Therefore, SECI has been unnoticed and uncoordinatedly implemented from “Happy Corner” with experiential knowledge and the National Platform for disaster risk reduction (DRR).
Highlights
The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) of Gambia was established by an Act of parliament 2008 and mandated to coordinate disaster management issues in The Gambia with Strategy and Policy frameworks
The research adopted a qualitative case study and content analysis approach to analyse the data using Voyant tools looking at the subject and concept of the Knowledge creation (KC) SECI process in NDMA
NDMA and partners need KC theory for successful implementation to address the four stages of knowledge conversion. It will identify tacit and explicit knowledge needs and the current condition of the KC process and provide leadership with good guidance that would contribute to achieving NDMA objectives through SECI
Summary
The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) of Gambia was established by an Act of parliament 2008 and mandated to coordinate disaster management issues in The Gambia with Strategy and Policy frameworks. It has the political will from the highest office of the Vice President as the overall supervisor and the chairperson of the disaster governing council, which comprises all government ministries, private sectors, academic institutions, Red Cross Society, religious leaders, NGOs, civil society, media, and UN agencies. With established structures and political will, NDMA performance has many challenges, especially technical capacities in Disaster Risk Management and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRM/DRR).
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