Disaster Resilient:Future Ready Victoria Insights Webinar

This public webinar is an opportunity to share key findings from the Victorian DR:FR program. The University of Sydney will join FRRR to highlight key takeaways from recent research findings for the multiple stakeholders that contirbute to building resilience and disaster preparedness. The webinar will aim to speak to community members, not-for-profit organisations, local government, intermediaries like FRRR delivering support programs and funders who are committed to supporting the continuation of this critical work.

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The increasing frequency and intensity of disaster events is leading to extensive social, economic and environmental impacts, especially in remote, rural and regional communities. That’s why, since 2012, FRRR has been actively investing in community capacity to enhance disaster preparedness and resilience.

From our experiences of supporting communities in their recovery from disaster events we noticed that those able to recover most quickly had strong social capital, high levels of inclusion, diverse leadership and broad engagement across community and with the emergency management system. We wanted to better understand what it took to create these conditions and so the Disaster Resilient: Future Ready (DR:FR) initiative was born.

Following a pilot in three communities in New South Wales (NSW), we took the program to Victoria, again partnering with three diverse communities. Our focus in both States was on exploring what it would take to enable community-led approaches that responded to each community’s unique context. To assess the effectiveness of the approach, in both cases we partnered with researchers from the University of Sydney.