Resilient Communities North Coast

Feb - Oct 2022 | Clarence Valley, Coffs Harbour and Hinterland, Nambucca Valley and Macleay Valley, NSW, Australia

This project involved training local people on the North and Mid North Coast of NSW to build their knowledge, skills and capacity for carrying out community resilience projects.

The project fostered a sense of community ownership and empowerment and supported local people to find effective solutions to identified challenges.

88 %

of participants connected with other like-minded individuals from their community.

65 %

of participants felt they gained knowledge about actions they can take to enhance disaster readiness in their household and community.

92 %

of participants experiences opportunities to identify and share ideas/actions with others.

  • "Knowing we are not on our own. That the resilience community we have met online are like-minded and wanting to help make change in connecting with these issues and each other."

    - Participant

  • "More opennesss to becoming a participant rather than a leader. Before I felt a lot of weight on my own shoulders, now there are people looking to work together towards similar goals."

    - Participant

  • "Feel more positive about the 'new' community that I have become a part of."

    - Participant

  • "Meeting with like-minded people have given me a sense of hope for the future."

    - Participant

  • "Site visits to property - to see what can be done and how malleable the landscape can be."

    - Participant

  • "I have taken steps to become resilient myself and my neighbours concerning fire hazards."

    - Participant

  • "Communicated a lot of quite complicated information to make participants feel empowered to make small and large changes to improve resilience."

    - Participant

  • "Created a safe and supportive environment to share ideas and start action, covered a lot of areas/ideas."

    - Participant

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Outputs and Outcomes

  • 11 local vulnerable communities

  • 23 Trained Community Facilitators

  • 6 Resilience themes including: Fire, Flood, Food, Health, Economy and Infrastructure, Energy

  • 72 Community Workshops

  • 15 Community Action events

  • 4 ongoing Community groups formed or supported

  • 25 partnerships including SES and RFS

Partners

This is a Bushfire Community Recovery and Resilience Fund project through the joint Commonwealth/State Disaster Recovery Funding Arrangements. Although funding for this product has been provided by both the Australian and NSW Governments, the material contained herein does not necessarily represent the views of either government.

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