Retracted: Exploring the factors affecting disaster coordination between government agencies and NGOs in disaster relief distribution and rehabilitation activities: Evidence from Bangladesh

• Published date: 01 February 2022
• Author: Mohammed Mahin Uddin,Sumran Ali,Tajdar Khan,Md. Amjad Hossain Reyad,Rajesh Paul
• Date: 01 February 2022
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/pa.2373

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Exploring the factors affecting disaster coordination between

government agencies and NGOs in disaster relief distribution

and rehabilitation activities: Evidence from Bangladesh

Mohammed Mahin Uddin

1

| Sumran Ali

1

| Tajdar Khan

2

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Md. Amjad Hossain Reyad

3

| Rajesh Paul

3

1

School of Public Affairs, University of Science

and Technology of China, Hefei, China

2

University of Science and Technology of

China, Hefei, China

3

EX- Fellow of School of Public Affairs,

University of Science and Technology of

China, Hefei, China

Correspondence

Sumran Ali, School of Public Affairs, University

of Science and Technology of China, Hefei,

Anhui Province, China.

Email: sumranali@mail.ustc.edu.cn

The study contributes to scholastic arena on transactive memory system theory

(TMS) through inquiring relationship between resource sharing (RS), communication

(COOM), and trust (TR) as antecedents of successive disaster relief distribution and

rehabilitation (SRDR) activities in Bangladesh, and the mediating role of coordination

(COOR) in this relationship. Using AMOS version 22, the conceptual framework is

examined. Data has been analyzed based on 150 respondents (Upazila Parishad's

staffs and NGOs' staffs) and it encircled a total 10 disaster- invaded districts of

Bangladesh as the amplitude of the study. Based on the findings, this investigation

explored a new conceptual framework that positively diminishes the disco ordination

between government and NGOs when they work simultaneously in disaster-affected

grounds for relief and rehabilitation activities.

1|INTRODUCTION

Climate Change and its negative consequence like natural disasters

are the recent most talked issues in the globe and the sheer intimida-

tion to the humankind, its risks are multi-dimensional, multi sartorial

having tentivy and far-reaching effects. The inhabitants of this earth

are suffering massively by different segments of natural disasters

resulting in loss of lives, infrastructural damage, shortage of water and

food. For instance, recent Tokyo tsunami 2011 and Christchurch

earthquake 2010–2011 cost millions of dollars for the rehabilitation

of these areas and the Chinese earthquake 2008 killed more than

67,000 people and in Myanmar due to Cyclone Nargis, 78,000 people

lost their lives (Akhtar, Marr, & Garnevska, 2012). Owing to the dra-

matic change of world climate, Bangladesh is the worst sufferer and

every year she undergoes multiple natural miseries like floods,

drought, water-logging, tidal surge, cyclone, tornado, river/coastal

erosion, thunderstorm landslides, extreme weather events, hailstorm,

salinity intrusion Bangladesh lies in the first row with high risk among

top disaster vulnerable 15 countries. Most recently from 1988–2013,

148,538 people were killed in Bangladesh by four natural disasters

like floods, cyclones, tornados, and landslides (Islam, Tasnuva, Islam, &

Haque, 2014).

The coordination among NGOs is predominantly a necessity

when organizations individually cannot comport adequately to mam-

moth disasters. In conformity with (Balcik, Beamon, Krejci,

Muramatsu, & Ramirez, 2010), no unaccompanied player has ade-

quate resources to respond efficiently in a natural as well as human-

made inversion. Videlicet, after the Asian Tsunami 2004,700 non-

government organizations and more than 40 countries took part in

direct assistance (Chia, 2007). For this reason, establishing harmony

among all of these organizations has turned into a needful issue. Coor-

dinated efforts among all participated organizations are exigent for

successive disaster relief distribution and rehabilitation (SRDR) activi-

ties but non-existence of coordination, made failure the efforts of

many organizations of the world. Typically, worthy contributions for

recovery during and after the disaster were attained from community-

based organizations and NGOs and beside this, other informal sup-

ports from various organizations made remarkable contributions in

this regard in Bangladesh (Khan & Rahman, 2007).

Government and NGOs appear of challenges during disaster relief

distribution and rehabilitation activities owing to some negative activi-

ties originated from both two sides that annihilate the coordination

process between government and NGOs working for disaster-

affected people. Productive Coordination is a puzzling issue for

Received: 28 March 2020 Revised: 3 May 2020 Accepted: 9 August 2020

DOI: 10.1002/pa.2373

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