Councils building regional resilience through collaboration
NTARC is delivering the Northern Councils Building Regional through Collaboration funded through the Australian Government’s, National Emergency Management Authority’s, Disaster Ready Fund. This collaborative project is developing local resilience plans and resources to strengthen councils and their communities, helping them become more sustainable and better prepared for natural hazards and climate impacts.
The project is using a best-practice, evidence-based approach designed to support long-term resilience that aligns to core roles and functions of councils. It will:
Strengthen councils’ decision-making by improving governance networks and developing or aligning resilience and risk reduction strategies.
Be guided by scientific climate data that considers physical, economic, and legal factors.
Clarify the roles and responsibilities of local government, state agencies, and private stakeholders to ensure transparency, avoid duplication, and deliver effective responses.
Build councils’ skills to include resilience planning in areas such as asset management, land use, and development—across individual, shared, and regional levels.
Create a shared platform to identify and assess how council assets and services are exposed or vulnerable to climate and natural hazards.
Improve councils’ ability to identify actions, share resources, and coordinate responses both locally and regionally.
Support collaboration across councils to scale up actions and responses for the whole region.
Promote consistency across councils, increasing transparency and resilience within communities.
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