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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 ChmutinaCapacity 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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DisastersVolume
45Issue
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627-646Publisher
WileyVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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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
2020-03-08Publication date
2021-03-12Copyright date
2021ISSN
0361-3666eISSN
1467-7717Publisher version
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- en
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Dr Ksenia Chmutina. Deposit date: 12 March 2020Usage metrics
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