The City of Melbourne is working on a four-year Major Initiative “Prepare Melbourne” on Community Disaster Resilience, which is included in the Council Plan 2021-25 to ‘engage and prepare residents and communities to enhance their resilience to hazards, disasters and the health impacts of climate change’.
North and West Melbourne have been prioritised to conduct a Community Resilience Assessment to learn from the neighbourhoods’ vulnerabilities and strengths, inform community members about resources under development and hear ideas to build resilience in the community.
Only 33 per cent of people in West Melbourne have confidence that their neighbourhood would pull together during a disaster or emergency and 41 per cent believed that they could get help from a neighbour. This work is aligned with West Melbourne’s ‘future proofing’ neighbourhood priority.
In North Melbourne, although 64 per cent have confidence in their neighbourhood “pulling together” during a disaster, only 23 per cent believe they could receive help from a neighbour. This work is well aligned with North Melbourne’s ‘caring for each other in an emergency’ neighbourhood priority.
Check out the full report here:
https://participate.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community-resilience/north-and-west-melbourne-resilience-assessment