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Developing disaster risk reduction skills among informal construction workers in Nepal

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posted on 2021-02-10, 08:45 authored by Jo Rose, Ksenia ChmutinaKsenia Chmutina
Capacity development has become embedded as part of the aid package offered by international organisations in response to humanitarian crises. However, the effectiveness of such capacity development efforts is rarely monitored or examined. Further, the local context and learning preferences of trainees appear to be often overlooked. Globally, the informal construction sector is thriving hence, using a case study of Nepal, where construction and post-earthquake reconstruction efforts are largely delivered by the informal construction sector, this paper examines how and whether informal construction workers effectively develop capacity and utilise trainings to develop more disaster resilient buildings. This paper explores how learning preferences of Nepalese construction workers could be drawn on to improve the effectiveness and sustainability of capacity development efforts. Finally, this paper highlights that training programmes informed by the context and preferred learning style of disaster affected communities, promote and sustain capacity development efforts.

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Royal Academy of Engineers

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

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Disasters

Volume

45

Issue

3

Pages

627-646

Publisher

Wiley

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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© The Authors

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Wiley under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Acceptance date

2020-03-08

Publication date

2021-03-12

Copyright date

2021

ISSN

0361-3666

eISSN

1467-7717

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Ksenia Chmutina. Deposit date: 12 March 2020

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