How Can Practitioners Support Citizen Volunteers in Disaster Risk Reduction?Insight from“Good and Ready”in Aotearoa New Zealand  

作　　者：Loïc Le Dé Steve Ronoh Ei Mon Thinn Kyu Brigitte Rive 

机构地区：[1]School of Public Health and Interdisciplinary Studies,Auckland University of Technology,Auckland,2025,New Zealand [2]Pacific Health Research Centre,Auckland University of Technology,Auckland,2025,New Zealand [3]New Zealand Red Cross,Auckland,2241,New Zealand

出　　处：《International Journal of Disaster Risk Science》2024年第3期374-387,共14页国际灾害风险科学学报（英文版）

基　　金：the support of the New Zealand Ministry of Business,Innovation and Employment(MBIE)through the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges 2 for funding this research。

摘　　要：Global and national policy frameworks emphasize the importance of people's participation and volunteers'role in disaster risk reduction.While research has extensively focused on volunteers in disaster response and recovery,less attention has been paid on how organizations involved in disaster risk management can support volunteers in leading and coordinating communitybased disaster risk reduction.In 2019,the New Zealand Red Cross piloted the Good and Ready initiative in Auckland,Aotearoa New Zealand,with the objective to empower local people in resilience building with a focus on volunteers and community participation.This research examined the positive and negative outcomes of Good and Ready and investigated volunteers'experiences in the disaster resilience initiative.It involved the codesign of a questionnaire-based survey using participatory methods with Good and Ready volunteers,the dissemination of the survey to gather volunteers'viewpoints,and a focus group discussion with participatory activities with Red Cross volunteers.The findings highlight that a key challenge lies in finding a balance between a program that provides flexibility to address contextual issues and fosters communities'ownership,versus a prescriptive and standardized approach that leaves little room for creativity and self-initiative.It pinpoints that supporting volunteers with technical training is critical but that soft skills training such as coordinating,communicating,or facilitating activities at the local level are needed.It concludes that the sustainability of Good and Ready requires understanding and meeting volunteers'motivations and expectations and that enhancing partnerships with local emergency management agencies would strengthen the program.

关 键 词：Community-based approach Disaster risk reduction New Zealand PARTICIPATION VOLUNTEERS 

分 类 号：X4[环境科学与工程—灾害防治]