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    IMPACT OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT: STUDY OF TEHSIL BALAKOT, DISTRICT MANSEHRA, NWFP, PAKISTAN
    (Department Of Sociology, University Of Peshawar, 2014) Muhammad Kaleem; Supervisor Prof. Dr. Sarah Safdar
    The present study was conducted under the title “Impact of Community Participation on Disaster Management: Study of Tehsil Balakot, District Mansehra, NWFP, Pakistan”. Tehsil Balakot, the worst stricken area by the unfair jolts of the October 08, 2005 earthquake was selected for study. The main objectives of the study were to know about the impact of the local communities’ participation, attitude of local community and utilization of indigenous resources for coping with the problems posed by the disaster. A diagrammatic model “Organic Community Model for Disaster Survival by Alan Kirshenbaum” was applied under the assumptions that there was no significant role of the components of the model in disaster management and then followed the basic criteria for testing the model, hypothesis were developed and were operationalized through variables and indicators. Subsequently, the data was collected from the purposively selected 1012 respondents through a pre-tested interview schedule from the overall worst affected villages of the entire union councils of tehsil Balakot. Eventually, the data was transferred to SPSS for statistical analysis and results. Simple percentages as well as Chi square and Gamma statistics were applied in order to show the association and relationship of variables with one another. The respondents of the study belonged to the multiple segments of the local communities with respect to their level of education, localities, age groups, family compositions, level of incomes and occupations. The data showed that majority of the sampled households had faced economic as will as human losses in one or the other forms. Keeping in view the gravity of situation the local communities notably participated in removing the rubble, providing first aid facilities to the injured, shifting the seriouslyinjured to the hospitals, entombing the dead bodies themselves with the help of neighbors, friends, relatives and concerned local communities, supplying FIs and NFIs to the needy people, retrofitting the minor damages of their houses by themselves or by ERRA in addition to their own finances and labors, reconstructing their houses and rehabilitating their livelihood sources by themselves, communal help, donations of the communities or with the help of different organizations. The data indicated that the local communities participated in the adjustment of vulnerable orphans and widows, provision of shelters to the affected families, restoration and openings of potable water channels, drainage and irrigation water supply channels as well as the openings of small routes to the villages.