Capacity Building for Disaster Mitigation in The Flood Plains Areas of Kogi State, Nigeria

Capacity buildings in the built environment shut laxity of urban control and regulatory compliance developing areas. In Kogi State, Nigeria, they had been an chaos natural disasters such as floods leading to deaths, destruction houses, properties communities. This paper identifies examines potential hazards risks precaution, focusing on development local stakeholders for threat identification, preparedness, strengths weakness towards disaster mitigation Nigeria. Quantitative data were collected using a structured questionnaire survey building owners, residents, architects, engineers, surveyors, supervisors, officers with valid percentage 82% responses, semi-structured face-to-face interviews case study methods aforementioned relevant obtaining information necessity capacity prevent or reduce impact disaster. Using SPSS descriptive inferential statistics analysis content qualitative data, findings indicates that professionals support communities other identifying hazards, knowing who is at risk be harmed, precaution taken, record keeping, periodic updating data. There was gap self-help prevention strengthening among it relates standards regulations which will impacts hazard from studies. And revealed there sketchy previous occurrences, awareness infrastructures maintenance regulation strategies are dire needs Thus, finally lead proposed recommendations uch compulsory training improve skills knowledge stakeholders, insurance policy education create awareness, suspension approval within areas, vulnerable women children means reducing