October 23, 2025 Thesis Open Access

Michael Sintayehu

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  <dc:creator>Michael Sintayehu</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>2025-10-23</dc:date>
  <dc:description>The increased incidence of natural disasters over recent decades has been accompanied by a corresponding dramatic proliferation of human casualties, economic damage and recovery costs. Post-disaster processes are therefore increasingly becoming the paramount focus of disaster management stakeholders. Current research has noted the importance of improving community resilience with respect to household capacity, organizational capacity, and government role, as the three main assessment dimensions to enable communities to recover effectively and efficiently from disaster events. Community resilience involves proactive preparedness and mitigation initiatives. The principal objective of the research conducted for this thesis was to evaluate the importance and implications of the role of the three main assessment dimensions as well as flooding that characterized Dire Dawa city during and post-disaster with respect to improving resilience, recovery, and minimizing the detrimental impact on vulnerable communities. The research entailed field case study involved three sources of information: secondary data, interviews, and field observations. Interviewees included household members, government officials, community leaders, and participating NGOs and CBOs. The qualitative analysis method used focusing on flood risk factors, housing and income restoration, and disaster risk reduction measures. The results of the research show that a year after the disaster people’s major problems were drastically dropped income levels, inadequate housing and inability to restore livelihoods. Emergency phase had been successful however the critical shift from short-term response to long term development framework had not yet been purely successful. Nevertheless, some important steps had been taken.</dc:description>
  <dc:identifier>https://zenodo.org/record/20566</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>10.20372/nadre:20566</dc:identifier>
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  <dc:relation>doi:10.20372/nadre:20565</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>url:https://nadre.ethernet.edu.et/communities/ddu-business-economics</dc:relation>
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  <dc:title>Flood Hazard and Post-Disaster Recovery Strategy: A Case of Dire Dawa City Administration, Ethiopia</dc:title>
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