Nazir, Umber (2022) Digital humanitarian network (DHN) framework to support disaster risk reduction (DRR) in Sarawak, Malaysia. Masters thesis, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia.

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Abstract

In Malaysia, over the last 10 years' time, economic loss from flood events has doubled, and one-third of all disaster incidents consists of hydrological phenomena like floods and storms. In Malaysia, flood disaster, along with other crisis events linked with it, is still the biggest challenge for the government and disaster management agencies to strategize and plan properly in order to come up with an efficient and effective plan. For the disasters, risk reduction activities will be implemented to reduce the impact of a disaster on the community and economy. In Malaysia, Sarawak is one of the most vulnerable states for flood disasters. This study was conducted for Sarawak, which is likely to have disastrous events, mainly floods, affecting the economy and human life. Sarawak needs to be digitally connected with all Sarawak Disaster Management Agencies (SDMAs) to fight disasters and build resilient communities. Multi-agency coordination has always been a solid foundation for Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR). A comprehensive grasp of each agency's duties and management cultures is required for effective collaboration. This research aims to examine the relationship of DRR and Digital Humanitarian Networks (DHN) that involved in Sarawak, Malaysia. Then, it will access the relationship of DRR with social media and multi-agency collaboration in order to manage disasters and their impact on DRR activities in Sarawak, Malaysia. This research used quantitative techniques and questionnaire survey to achieve research aim. The finding concludes that DHN, social media and multi-agency collaboration have positive and significant relationship with DRR in managing disasters in Sarawak. The research objectives of this study proved that DRR activities in Sarawak can be improved through social media, DHN and multi-agency collaboration, presented in a form of framework as well. However, there is a need of DHN in Sarawak along with social media and multi-agency collaboration to mitigate the impacts of disasters in Malaysia. The study will open new opportunities for crisis reporting, redraw the existing constraints of safety, access, speed, and consequently may influence the quality of coverage and the visibility of some crises over others

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