Assessing Women’s Adaptation in Response to Floods in Karonga District, Malawi | Chapter 10 | Recent Trends in Arts and Social Studies Vol. 4

 In the face of lasting flood hazards, adaptation becomes an necessary option. Globally, flood hazards have raised their frequency and severity; therefore women accompanying limited resources are frequently at a greater risk of the hazard's impacts on account of a lack of access to crucial occupation capitals. The study assessed daughters's adaptation strategies to put oneself in the place of another flood risks in Karonga District, Malawi. The study was a cross-sectional survey design employing all-inclusive and qualitative research designs. The quantitative method calm data utilizing a Household structured questionnaire, while the subjective method calm data using a tractor trailer-structured inquiry. The sampling technique for determinable was probability natural random sampling to select the three villages and to select female-headed households from the three villages. The subjective sampling technique secondhand purposive examining to choose KII and FDG participants purposely. The sample size for determinable was 120, calculated using the 2010 Fisher's rule; the target ratification rate was 9%. The sample size for qualitative dossier was 17 participants, five (5) from administration departments, two (2) from nongovernmental organisations, two (2) traditional officers and eight (8) members of FDG amounting to some members of ACPC and VCPC. Quantitative dossier were analysed using R and Excel, while qualitative dossier was analysed using Qualitative Data Analysis (QDA) Miner 6.0. Results demonstrated lower women participation in trouble training (12%), controversy participation (35%) and low full of enthusiasm DRM actions (20%). Other results recorded higher participation in farming (62%). Bivariate statistical study with association important at (p-value 0.05) was run, and results showed possession influencing pre-flood conduct (p-value=0.043). Bivariate statistics granted occupation to influence wives's ownership and control of land (p-value=0.041), while instruction influenced girls's participation in male-dominated actions (p-value=0.003). The study decided that women in the area were less flexible to flood hazards due to their depressed-income levels and patriarchal arrangement, which hindered their approach to adaptive volume domains like assets and instrumentality. The study recommends that policymakers in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management, in addition to implementers, should set a clear Time frame to ensure an direct and efficient shift from a sensitive to a proactive approach in DRR activities, that should too be gender inclusive.

Author(s) Details:

Barnet Chipeta,
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The Catholic University of Malawi, Malawi.

Maureen Kapute Mzuza,
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The Catholic University of Malawi, Malawi.

Isaac Kadono Mwalwimba,
Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, The Catholic University of Malawi, Malawi.

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