Themes | Categories | Sub-categories | Example of codes |
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Managerial barriers | Education | Public education | Lack of education of humanitarian aids in the schools |
Lack of education for managing the affected society | |||
Lack of familiarity with the involved organizations in humanitarian aids | |||
Organizational education | Inappropriate education and management of the enthusiastic persons | ||
Insufficient knowledge about the ways of assisting | |||
Inappropriate education and management of the local trustees | |||
Lack of enough education of the volunteers | |||
Command and Coordination | Incident Command System | Several decision-making centers | |
Lack of an official administrator for disaster management | |||
Lack of unified incident command system | |||
Coordination and Cooperation | No coordination among the assisting organizations | ||
Lack of an organization for coordinating the aids and donations | |||
Interference of the duties of responsible organizations | |||
Communication and Information | Social media | Weakness of the media in managing the rumors | |
Ineffective social media | |||
Multiplicity of sources of information and news | |||
Organizational communication | Weakness of the inter-organizational communication | ||
Weakness of the intra-organizational communication | |||
Rules | Rules and Regulations | Lack of participation rules for the celebrities | |
Lack of rules and regulations for collecting cash and non-cash donations | |||
Lack of specified protocols | |||
Supervision and Transparency | Weakness of the participation rules for organizations | ||
Weakness of participation rules for the communities | |||
Insufficient transparency of the aids gathered by GOs and NGOs | |||
Insufficient supervision on the celebrities’ accounts | |||
Multiplicity of the governmental and non-governmental institutions for collecting donations | |||
Structural barriers | Security | The security of affected area | The existence of thieves in the affected area |
Lack of a proper plan for recognizing affected people from abusing persons | |||
The security of intercity area | Insufficient security of trucks carrying the donations in the intercity routes | ||
Insufficient security of donors and volunteers in the intercity routes | |||
Traffic and Overcrowding | Overcrowding of affected area | People overcrowding | |
Volunteer overcrowding | |||
Traffic of the intercity area | Congestion of vehicles | ||
Inappropriate management of intercity traffic | |||
Heavy traffic | |||
Assessment | Need assessment | Lack of assessing the needs of the affected area | |
Inadequate consideration of sanitary needs, especially for women, kids, and elders | |||
Lack of using local capacities in identifying the needs | |||
Vulnarability and Capacity assessment | Lack of assessing the valnurability and capacity of the affected area | ||
Lack of using local people in identifying the vulnerabilities and capacities | |||
Providing system | Distribution | Remoteness and impracticability of some rural areas | |
Insufficient distribution of the aids to the villages and distant regions | |||
Inequality in distributing the aids | |||
Delay in sending the vital aids | |||
Preservation | Ambushing the food under sunlight | ||
Lack of enough equipment for saving | |||
Peoples’ interferences in the preservation process | |||
Cultural setting | Community trust | People’s low trust in the governmental institutions | |
People’s excessive trust in the celebrities | |||
Community discipline | People’s rush to the distribution places | ||
The poor culture of waiting in the queues | |||
Benefactor and charity culture | Tendency to work in the health section more than another sections | ||
Distrust of the benefactors in the governmental institutions | |||
Parallel services of the charity organizations |