The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development acknowledges and reaffirms the critical need to reduce disaster risk. There are also several Sustainable Development Goals and targets that can help to reduce disaster risk and build resilience. In this article, the authors will focus mainly on community empowerment in disaster management. Community plays an important role during disaster, before and after disaster occurs. This is in line with the goals of the Sendai Framework (2015-2030) which emphasizes on the role of society in disaster management by empowering local communities according to culture and local context. However, there were still insufficient studies on community empowerment in disaster management in Malaysia. Hence this article conducted a systematic review on the community empowerment in disaster management. This systematic review will focus on the development, empowerment and resilience practices among affected communities by promoting the use of internal and external sources which are in the community itself. This study guided by Reporting standards for Systematic Evidence Syntheses or ROSES review protocol. There are three main processes in the systematic searching strategies process namely identification, screening and eligibility. The searching process in these three databases namely Scopus, Web of Science and Google Scholars have resulted in a total of 156 articles. Overall, there were only 16 selected articles. The themes of the study stipulates that there are three major contributions towards this article namely disaster prone, community development and local knowledge. Community support should be seen as a process of facilitating resilience within individuals, families and communities which enables them to bounce back from the impact of crisis and helps build social support networks after disasters. This will help to deal with such events in the future.
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