Capacity Building of Local Communities in Community-Based Crisis Management: A Study of the Role of the Cultural Factors

The aim of this study is to investigate Capacity-Building of local communities in community-based crisis management with a cultural approach in the governorate of Kerman province. The method of this research is applied and mixed according to the type of data. The presentation of the pattern is done in a qualitative meta-hybrid method; thus, using the meta-combined method, 106 articles in the field of crisis management were reviewed and with the help of content analysis, the relevant dimensions and codes were extracted and the importance and priority of each was determined using the Shannon quantitative entropy method. The statistical population of the present study is all of the employees of the governorate of Kerman province. Through Cochran's formula, 126 people were selected and a research questionnaire was distributed among them. In order to analyze the data, confirmatory factor analysis with SMART PLS software version 2 was used. According to the research findings, indicators extracted from articles are in three dimensions: before the crisis (education and awareness, social and cultural capital, theoretical participation, spiritual capital), during the crisis (practical participation, communication, managing people's emotions), and after the crisis (collective memories, social participation, Mass media and identity). Among these, the dimensions before, during and after the crisis explain 99%, 98% and 98% of the changes in the community-based crisis management model with a cultural approach, respectively. Also, the results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that all components and indicators of the research model were confirmed with 99% confidence. In the third stage of the research and in order to prioritize the components and indicators of the research, the Soara technique was used and the components and indicators of the research were prioritized. The results showed that the components of general education, practical participation and social participation with the final weights of 0.42, 0.35, 0.27 have the first to third ranks, respectively.