Abstract:
The main objective of the study was to assess the practice of disaster risk management
and its factors(avoid it) in jimma zone selected woredas. The study assesses the impact
of independent variables (sex, age, number of family, educational background,
geography, information access, disaster risk management tools and vulnerability) on
dependent variable (disaster risk management practice) in jimma zone. The researcher
were used self-administered questionnaires. A total number of 146units of
questionnaires were distributed physically among sampled respondents of the study in
the selected woredas. Statistical Package for Social Science version 20 (SPSS) was used
to analyze the data which were collected from the survey. Respondent's feedbacks were
analyzed through Pearson's Correlation Analysis and Multiple Regression Analysis.
The results indicate that whether the independent variables have significant
relationships and correlations with the dependent variable which is disaster risk
management practice. The findings also reveal that sex, number of family, educational
background, information access, disaster risk management tools and vulnerability have
significant relationships with disaster risk management practice. Among the
independent variables, disaster risk management tools has the strongest correlations
while number of family has the weakest correlations with disaster risk management
practice
