Open AccessListening to the Voices of the People: Community’s Assessment of Disaster Responder Agency Performance During Disaster Situations in Rural Northern Ghana
Author(s) -
Stephen Apanga,
Gregory Titi Addebah,
Dennis Chirawurah
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
plos currents
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.282
H-Index - 49
ISSN - 2157-3999
DOI - 10.1371/currents.dis.4226abe816b2746df13d16ea307b5846
Subject(s) - focus group , agency (philosophy) , active listening , emergency management , first responder , qualitative research , socioeconomics , geography , environmental resource management , public relations , environmental planning , political science , psychology , business , medicine , sociology , marketing , medical emergency , social science , environmental science , communication , law
In Northern Ghana, a combination of torrential rains coupled with the spilling of the Bagre dam in neighboring Burkina Faso in the past few years has resulted in perennial flooding of communities. This has often led to the National Disaster Management Organization (NADMAO) the main disaster responder agency in Ghana, being called upon to act. However affected communities have never had the opportunity to evaluate the activities of the agency. The aim of this study is therefore to assess the performance of the main responder agency by affected community members to improve on future disaster management.