Disaster Resilient: Future Ready is a national initiative that supports remote, rural and regional communities to lead initiatives that improve wellbeing, increase preparedness and strengthen resilience, so they have greater capacity to endure, adapt and evolve positively when faced with the impacts of climate, disasters and other disruptions.
In Whittlesea:
The CRC is keen to ensure that grassroots community action in future events is recognised in the formal Municipal Emergency Management Plan (MEMP) and, therefore, by the formal disaster response agencies. They have received support from the MEMP Committee and have rewritten a previous Community Emergency Management Plan, which was endorsed in 2023.
They intend to create a Community Emergency Response Network of local people and agencies, who would coordinate the community-level relief efforts in future disasters.
FRRR funding has been used to employ a Project Officer to support these initiatives.
Check it out here:
https://frrr.org.au/funding/disaster-resilience-and-climate-solutions/disaster-resilient-future-ready/drfr-victoria/