Factors Affecting Disaster risk management practices in case of jimma zone selected weredas

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