Author: Zarni Soe
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-11-08
Year: 2011
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M. Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2011
Examination Committee: Jayant Kumar Routray (Chairperson); Soparth Pongquan, Mokbul M. Ahmad (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: Ayeyawaddy Delta is prone to multiple hazards in Myanmar. Its coastal regions are exposed to cyclone, storm surge and flood frequently. In any disaster situation, most lives and properties are lost due to lack of knowledge on preparedness. Disasters may happen in the future. There is a need to study vulnerability of people in disaster prone areas. The overall goal of the study is to assess the degree of vulnerability of people in the context of social, economic, housing structure and infrastructure, water and sanitation conditions of people living in disaster prone area, and to prioritize their needs for infrastructural and other facilities, and help them for disaster risk reduction. The field survey was conducted in five villages of Labutta Township in September 2010. Primary data were collected through key informants and questionnaire survey. By assuming 90 % confidence interval, the sample size was 80 out of 395 households in five villages of Ayeyawaddy Delta. Descriptive statistical techniques such as frequency, percentage, and average and weighted average index were used to assess social vulnerability of people with focus on gender, age group, households‟ attendance on disaster risk reduction training. Economic vulnerability assessment of people was done using indicators such as income, landownership, household assets, purpose of taking loan. Similarly, physical vulnerability assessment of people was also done relating to factors such as housing conditions and infrastructure, housing types, housing location from the river bank and availability of safer shelters. Degree of vulnerability related to infrastructure was measured in terms of water and sanitation conditions of people including source of water, distance of water from the settlement, access to health center and toilet facilities, and risks of diseases. Weighted average index was used to prioritize their needs for different infrastructural facilities in the context of disaster risk reduction. Based on this study, it is revealed that households
Scholarship Donor(s): World Bank Graduate Scholarship Program JJ/WBGSP, AIT Fellowship
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Regional and Rural Development Planning, School of Environment, Resources and Development
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