Why does community-based disaster risk reduction fail to learn from local knowledge? Experiences from Malawi

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/99535 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/99535 http://eprints.org/relation/issmallThumbnailVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/99535 archive 353 disk0/00/01/83/37 2022-11-02 09:07:25 2025-03-12 05:01:05 2022-11-02 09:07:25 article show Sakic Trogrlic R. 2356 0000-0002-6627-873X Duncan M. Wright G. van den Homberg M. Adeloye A. Mwale F. Why does community-based disaster risk reduction fail to learn from local knowledge? Experiences from Malawi pub ASA SYRR Community-based disaster risk reduction; Indigenous and local knowledge; Participation; Knowledge co-production; Sub-saharan africa It is often taken as given that community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) serves as a mechanism for the inclusion of local knowledge (LK) in disaster risk reduction (DRR). In this paper, through in-depth qualitative analysis of empirical data from Malawi, we investigate the extent to which CBDRR in practice really takes into account LK. This research argues that LK is underutilised in CBDRR and finds that current practice provides a limited opportunity for the inclusion of LK, due to five prime obstacles: i) current approach to community participation, ii) financial constraints and capacity of external stakeholders, iii) the donor landscape, iv) information consolidation and sharing, and v) external stakeholders attitudes towards LK. In CBDRR, a strong dichotomy between local and scientific knowledge is maintained, and further re-examination of community-based approaches in practice is needed to make them truly transformative. 2022-12 published Elsevier doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.103405 3417 public International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 83 e103405 TRUE 2212-4209 no info:eu-repo/semantics/article