Flood Effects on Household Livelihoods and it’s Controlling strategies in Gelana Woreda, Oromia, Ethiopia

Teshome Deresse Gizaw () and Simachewu Baye ()
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Teshome Deresse Gizaw: Bule Hora University
Simachewu Baye: Bule Hora University

Natural Hazards: Journal of the International Society for the Prevention and Mitigation of Natural Hazards, 2025, vol. 121, issue 2, No 43, 2213-2244

Abstract: Abstract This study assessed the effects of floods on household livelihoods and controlling strategies in Gelana Woreda, Oromia, Ethiopia. The study's goals included determining the contributing cause, calculating the flood's impact, evaluating household controlling activities in reaction to the threat of flooding, and evaluating how household livelihoods were impacted by the risk of a flood. The results of the study indicate that different flood effect factors show interpersonal flood variability with a tendency towards small increase. Over a ten-year period, seasonal migration (16.6%), disruption of human health (3%), and loss of life (1.5%) were the three most common shocks from flood-induced disasters in the study area; heavy rain/flash flooding (29.7%) and river flooding (49.2%) were the two main causes of these shocks, respectively. Based on the GIS-generated flood map, 46.5% of the kebeles chosen for the Gelana district were categorised as having a high risk of flooding; marginally over 2.3%, the remaining 22.1, 19.5, and 2.3% had extremely high, low, and moderately hazardous levels, respectively, indicating a higher risk of flooding. Whereas Jirme and Bore have areas with extremely low and medium flood threats, the areas surrounding Kersa, Metari, and Shamole Shida are classified as having highly hazardous and moderate hazardous flood danger. However, in the research region, the main obstacles to flood controlling techniques were informational gaps (15.6%), lack of funding (28.6%), absence of government support (18.6%), and reluctance to join farmer associations (14.1%). Raising farmers' knowledge of agricultural technologies, structural controlling, environmental restoration, ease of access to credit services, diversification of income streams, building farmers' capacity, promotion of multiple strategies as the main flood controlling strategies, and raising household standards in the study area are therefore all important.

Keywords: Controlling strategies; Flood Effects; Gelana; Livelihoods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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