UU-MBA-711-ZM: Research Proposal: Disaster management during COVID-19 pandemic: Role of Community leadership in South Africa

Course Name: Dissertation (UU-MBA-711-ZM )




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Title: Research Proposal


Disaster management during COVID-19 pandemic:
Role of Community leadership in South Africa


Tutor’s Name: Dr. Kinga Lowrie



Date: 2022, 10 July




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,Abstract

The advent of the global COVID-19 pandemic posed unprecedented new challenges for
governments, societies, and communities around the world. The effect of COVID-19 pandemic
is beyond health concerns and raised a profound impact on all other sections of society. South
Africa was not an exception to these pernicious challenges and expose to wide range of hitherto
unexperienced crisis; loss of jobs, lack of access to technology for schooling due to constant lock
downs and moreover, the unrest situations and protests. In this essence, the literature review
studied for this study focused on published articles, books, and reports in the last two decades
involving disaster management and crisis responses revolving around natural disasters or the
previous epidemiological infectious diseases, regarding to understand the role of community
leadership and community engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa.




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