- Title
- Factors influencing post-disaster reconstruction project management for housing provision in the Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestinian Territories
- Creator
- Enshassi, Adnan; Chatat, Tarik; von Meding, Jason; Forino, Giuseppe
- Relation
- International Journal of Disaster Risk Science Vol. 8, Issue 4, p. 402-414
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13753-017-0155-4
- Publisher
- SpringerOpen
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- In the Occupied Palestinian Territories, the Gaza Strip has suffered regular cycles of reconstruction due to systematic destruction during Israeli military operations, as in 2006, 2008-2009, 2012, and 2014. In this context of ongoing conflict this article aims to identify, rank, and discuss the most important factors influencing post-disaster reconstruction project management (PDRPM) for housing in the Gaza Strip. A set of key factors that influence PDRPM were assembled as a result of a global literature review. A questionnaire survey was conducted, and the obtained data were analyzed using a relative importance index for each PDRPM factor. Findings are presented in six groups: housing approaches, organizational behavior, project funding, supply chain and logistics, communication and coordination, and PDRPM context. Findings indicate that the most significant factors that influence PDRPM for housing provision in the Gaza Strip are related to issues associated with financial resources. It is critical that sufficient funding should be available in order to allow organizations to undertake housing projects in an effective and efficient way. Joint efforts are required from international donors and local organizations in order to effectively manage financial resources with the ultimate goal of improving PDRPM for housing provision.
- Subject
- Gaza Strip; Israel-Palestine conflict; post-disaster housing; post-disaster project management; post-disaster reconstruction
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1386770
- Identifier
- uon:32459
- Identifier
- ISSN:2095-0055
- Rights
- This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
- Language
- eng
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