Abstract
Academics and practitioners often argue indirectly that all the roads to community resilience should be paved with community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) approach. Community-based approach to resilience building has been a discursive material that appeals many disaster management players including international donors, non-governmental organisations and high-level government officials as well as politicians. Some researchers argue that CBDRR is the foundation of disaster risk governance. Unfortunately, globally, there is lack of studies on long-term and real-world experience of CBDRR. This article addresses this research gap by providing insights of CBDRR activities from a village in eastern Indonesia based on long-term studies. The adoption of CBDRR approach in Indonesia took place in the late 1990s and the authors have been part of the early adopters of the framework. Using longitudinal participant observations, this research combined qualitative and quantitative data collected during 1998–2017. It shows the rise and fall of a community responding to disaster risks over time. The article further highlights stories of frustrations and celebrations that surround CBDRR activities implemented by one local community in a dryland village in eastern Indonesia.
Highlights
Community-based approach (CBA) has been a discursive material that appeals to most international donors, non-governmental organisations and high-level government officials (Blaikie 2006)
There is an unwritten consensus that all the ways to achieve resilience, communities must be paved with community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) framework
As early adopters of CBDRR, we observed that the approach has been introduced by non-governmental organisations (NGOs), including our organisations in Indonesia since late 1990s
Summary
Community-based approach (CBA) has been a discursive material that appeals to most international donors, non-governmental organisations and high-level government officials (Blaikie 2006). Community-based approaches to reduce disaster risk have been known by various different names. Some called it community-based disaster risk management (CBDRM), community-based disaster management (CBDM), community-driven disaster risk reduction (CBDRR), communitybased disaster preparedness (CBDP), community-driven disaster risk management (CDDRR), community-managed disaster risk reduction (CMDRR) and community-managed disaster risk management (CMDRM). Some have been hazard specific such as community-based flood risk management (CBFRM) or CBDP and a dozen more combinations of wordings. These abbreviations are basically pointing to the earlier concepts of participatory learning and action for DRM (see Von Kotze & Holloway 1996)
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