The Role of Collaboration in Supporting Community Resilience Programs in Post-Disaster Events

Abstract

The impact of collaboration on the community resilience program for residents
of Lumajang Regency varies. For the variable “Strengthening local knowledge”,
collaboration is preferable since it allows different communities to cooperate in
gathering local information from different perspectives. According to our research,
if local knowledge is not strengthened through collaboration, it will actually
have the reverse effect—that is, it will not have an impact on catastrophe
risk reduction. This is due to the community’s still limited and underutilized
participation in government programs for monitoring and communicating the
catastrophe response. Different findings were made for the community network
and relationship variables, where the influence of relationships within the community
network on disaster risk reduction is still non-significant, whether directly
or indirectly through cooperative mediation. Because LR is preparing for disaster
risk management, community relations or engagement with the authorities
regarding the necessity of disaster risk management have not yet been involved.
The location, interaction, traits, and interests should all be taken into consideration
when forming the community. In fact, LR residents have not yet put
this into practice. The findings are similarly important when considering how
different variables, either directly or through the collaboration variable, influence
leadership, governance, and health. Therefore, disaster risk reduction may
be impacted directly or indirectly by the presence of emergency response health
services, the creation of disaster-resilient villages, and the creation of a profile
of disaster-prone locations. But according to the data above, collaboration can
actually have a bigger impact on disaster risk reduction.