RESIDENTS’ ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF POST FLOOD-DISASTER NEEDS ASSESSMENT IN IBADAN, NIGERIA

^*Akanmu, A. A., ^*Alabi, F. M., ^*Ogunsesan, A. S. and ^**Olamide, V. O.

^*Department of Urban and Regional Planning, The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Nigeria.

^**Department of Urban and Regional Planning, The Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria.

E-mail: ademolakanmu@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The implementation of Post Disaster Needs Assessment (PDNA) is a widely accepted exercise as nations globally embraced its principles, strategies and methodologies in enhancing the recovery and reconstruction planning after the occurrence of devastating disaster. The need to further the welfare of victims of disaster affected communities and speedy recovery of the overall performance of the halted socio-economic activities made the implementation of PDNA a worthwhile exercise. The Federal Government of Nigeria and different state governments since the colonial era till date, have commissioned and implemented PDNA at the instance of unprecedented disaster at various times in line with this assertion. As a result, this paper explored residents’ assessment of the implementation of PDNA with respect to August 2011 flood disaster in Ibadan, Nigeria. Using the concept of marginality and mattering, this research administered 104 questionnaires to randomly selected residents in the purposively selected areas within the eleven local government areas of Ibadan to elicit data on issues bothering on 2011 flood disaster, process, composition and implementation of PDNA. The collected data were later subjected to descriptive and inferential analysis. The study established strong positive relationship between the recovery of socio-economic activities of residents in the affected communities and the rate of implementation of PDNA with ‘r’ value of 0.67. The paper concluded with recommendations among others, that implementation of PDNA should be timely with active involvement of the flood affected communities in the overall PDNA process.