Capacity Building for Disaster Management: A Case of Pakistan (Published)
Disaster management is a nucleus for mitigating negative impacts of natural hazards. Its success or failure depends upon application of institutional frameworks, infrastructure development, and human and technical resources. Community participation in supporting government authorities to handle disaster-induced crises, is essential, too. It is an enhanced capacity building that provides an opportunity to Disaster Management Authorities to do collaborative decision-making for tackling natural disasters. Capacity building ensures strengthening of disaster management activities with a collective spirit of skilled force. Thus, almost all functions are placed under special control of Disaster Management Authorities which usher in an integrated adaptation of administrative activity with a shared purpose to address natural disasters. This article investigates existing capacity building for disaster management and inherent challenges, such as, insufficient infrastructure, fragmented governance, and limited resources, in Pakistan. Using capacity development theory for disaster management with qualitative methods and a descriptive research design coupled with analytical and explanatory aspects, this article analysed secondary and primary data, including interviews with experts. Purposive sampling has been used due to few experts on the topic. This study found that insufficient institutional framework, dearth of resources, poor training facilities, lack of modern technology, for example, Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are the main hurdles. Therefore, capacity building looks limited. Poor performance of state’s institutions has failed to mitigate losses caused by several natural disasters, especially frequent floods. Resultantly, floods have damaged socio-economic capital. This poor showing demands a much larger meaningful capacity building for disaster management.
Keywords: Capacity building, Disaster Management, Implementation, Infrastructure, Planning, natural hazards
Capacity Building and Employee Productivity in the Nigeria Public Sector: A Study of Anambra State Civil Service Commission, Awka (Published)
The level of low productivity among workers especially in the public sector has left much to be desired training and development of employees have been championed as a remedy to this malaise. However, the paper examines the extent to which capacity building enhances the quality of service delivery in the Anambra State civil service commission, Awka and to identify the factors that have been militating against capacity building of employees in the Anambra State civil service commission, Awka. The survey design was adopted to guide the investigation. The population of the study is 280. The theoretical framework adopted was Organizational Development theory that was propounded by Kurt Lewin in 1950. The researcher used chi-square for testing the hypotheses. Moreover, the major findings of the study were that capacity building enhances the quality of service delivery in the Anambra State civil service commission, Awka and that lack of training, insufficient fund and lack of modern technologies are the major factors militating against capacity building of employees in the Anambra State civil service commission, Awka. The major recommendation was that government should make policy that will encourage continuous staff training and development of its workers so that the potentials of the employees would be adequately harnessed.
Keywords: Capacity building, Employee, Nigeria public sector, Productivity
A Study on the Influence of Strategic Human Resource and Organizational Capacity Building on Performance Improvement of Public Service Delivery in Nakuru County-Kenya (Published)
The study will seek to examine the influence of strategic human resource and organizational capacity building on performance improvement of public service delivery in the departments of the registration of persons Nakuru County (Kenya) using the 2012-2013 performance improvement service delivery period as the baseline. The said departments include registration of births which issues birth certificates, registration of persons which issues national identity cards and registration of refugees which registers political asylum seekers. Nakuru County comprises of 9 sub counties thus- Nakuru Sub County, Njoro, Molo, Subukia, Nakuru North, Kuresoi, Rongai, Gilgil and Naivasha. The study has been prompted to be carried out due to reported incidents of low registration coverage in the issuance of Kenyan National Identification documents in the said county as pointed out by the (2012-2013) county annual registration performance reports which recorded less than 100% coverage contrary to the projected and expected achievement of 100%. The objectives of the study will be to: examine strategies put in place focusing on performance improvement of public service delivery, investigate on types of human resource capacity building advanced aiming at performance improvement of public service delivery, find out the influence of human resource and organizational capacity building on performance improvement of public service delivery, establish challenges and possible remedies encountered by the human resource and relevant organizations on performance improvement of public service delivery. The study will be guided by the Roseau’s psychological contract theory of (1994) which stresses on mutual beliefs and expectations by employees and organizations upon the successful performance of a worker. Descriptive survey research design method targeting a population of 308 respondents and 9 sub counties will be adopted. A sample size of 50% of the same will be used through random and non probability purposeful identification techniques which for the purposes of data collection will translate to 154 respondents and 5 sub counties. Primary and secondary sources of data collection will be employed by using questionnaires as data collection instruments after testing and re-testing them in similar environmental study conditions through piloting techniques to ascertain their validity and reliability as data collection tools. Collected data will be sorted out, coded and analyzed by using descriptive statistics and Statistical Packages for Social Scientists (SPSS) then tabulated in form of frequencies and percentages. Multiple regression statistical model will be adopted to test the advanced study hypothesis thus there is no significance relationship between strategies and performance improvement on public service delivery. Study findings will be subjected to review committee and its findings made open for public information and consumption.
Keywords: Capacity building, Human resource, Organizational, Performance Improvement And Public Service Delivery., Strategic