Quadrant of difficulty and usefulness for prioritizing community-based disaster preparedness parameter elements

Abstract

Objective: To prioritize building elements for community-based disaster preparedness parameters, so that priority elements were obtained that had very high benefits but the way to realize them was very difficult. Methodology: This descriptive study included 345 administrators of disaster risk reduction forums and community leaders who were selected using a stratified sampling technique. The research variable was the disaster preparedness parameter. Data were collected by filling out the DUEDP-Questionnaire, which contains attributes of difficulty and usefulness. Data were analyzed using the Quadrant of difficulty-usefulness method and then presented in 4 quadrants. Results: The five parameters of disaster preparedness are knowledge and attitudes (KA), policies (P), emergency response plans (ERP), early warning system (EWS), and resource mobilization (RM). The priority to be realized first is resource mobilization and an early warning system. The priority element as a parameter construct for resource mobilization that must be immediately realized by the disaster risk reduction forum is to train families to be prepared to provide disaster preparedness bags, especially in disaster-prone areas. The priority elements as a parameter construct for an early warning system that will immediately be realized by the disaster risk reduction forum are providing early warning tolls, agreeing on forms of communication of the early warning system to vulnerable and disabled groups, and agreeing on how to respond to the community if there is an early warning of the danger of disaster. Conclusion: Of the five disaster preparedness parameters, what needs to be worked out first by the disaster risk reduction forum for disaster-resilient villages are resource mobilization and an early warning system.