Transformative Actions for Community-Led Disaster Resilience

This report from Fire to Flourish proposes six transformative actions for putting this into practice to strengthen the disaster resilience of Australian communities in the face of climate change:

1. Create pathways for direct investment in community leaderships and capabilities for community-led disaster resilience planning and action.
2. Support a national community network as critical social infrastructure for strengthening the resilience capacities of Australian communities.
3. Formalise inclusive community voice, representation and partnerships in disaster resilience policy and programs.
4. Formalise Caring for Country as a holistic resilience practice supported by a national Indigenous Disaster Resilience and Climate Adaptation Framework.
5. Make data open, coordinated and readily accessible to communities by streamlining information flows across governments and agencies at local, state and national scales.
6. Invest in an innovation platform that facilitates rapid learning, co-design and scaling of promising community-led disaster resilience models, methods and tools.