Cause effect and mitigation of Flood Disaster Gatluak Ngueny Tot 080632 (original) (raw)

Flooding is the most challenging hazard with several and frequent impacts within the country. Generally, the objective of this study aimed to analyze the causes, effects and mitigation measures of flood disaster. The study was conducted with the aid of 204 respondents who participate by providing the appropriate data about the causes, effects and the mitigation measures of flood disaster. To come up with fine inference, descriptive statistic was employed for analyzing the quantitative and qualitative data that were collected through household questionnaire survey, key informant interview, focus group discussion and the field observation. This has shown that the study was undertaken using mixed research approach in which Statistical package for social science version 23 was used for analyzing the data collected. Rainfall, sparse vegetation cover and proximity to the river were found as the main causes of seasonal flooding. The underlying causes of vulnerability to flood for each household were the activities like cultivation along the river side, lack of alternative livelihood, poverty and residing at flood prone area. In this instance, female head households are more vulnerable compared to the male headed household. Flood effect observed as loss of household asset, collapsing houses, loss of crop, loss of livestock and spread of diseases threat the rural households and cost too much money with the sum of 21,083,870 ET_Birr. To mitigate the effect of the flooding, both structural and nonstructural measures were put in place by the rural household dwellers. The result presented in this study has shown that the cause of flood hazard has direct relationship to the effect and the mitigation measure. As the recommendation based on the result of the finding presented in this study, early dissemination of the warning messages, moving to higher grounds and constructing of channel must be in place for the safety of the district from the flooding effect.