Would your organisation be one of them?

Resilient Community Organisations is a toolkit developed by and for the community sector to help organisations measure and improve their resilience to natural disasters, extreme weather events and other emergencies.

The Toolkit includes:

• A benchmarking system so organisations can assess their current level of disaster resilience and identify areas of improvement
• The 6 Steps to Resilience: an online knowledge hub which provides all the information and resources organisations need to build a disaster resilient organisation.

The Resilient Community Organisations framework incorporates a risk management approach in line with the Australian/New Zealand Standard ISO 31000. The resources have been created in consultation with subject matter experts and are informed by a 2014 international ACOSS review of resilience tools available to community service organisations. The materials have been designed to enable time-poor community organisations to weave resilience building activities into business as usual practices rather than creating an additional, onerous process for organisations to implement.

The project builds on ACOSS’ world-first research into the community sector’s preparedness for extreme weather events. This research was conducted in 2012-13 with funding from the National Climate Change Adaptation Facility (NCCARF).