Community actions forcommunity resilience

Lew Short, Will Symons

EM Vision: Safer and More Resilient Communities

Resilience...

What is normal

for one person

is quite different

for another

Resilience is the capacity of individuals,

communities, institutions, businesses and

systems to survive, adapt, and thrive no

matter what kinds of chronic stresses and

acute shocks they experience

Source: 100 RC

Towards safer more resilient communities Guiding principles:•Each community is unique with existing and evolving levels of safety and resilience. •Listening is important. Organisations should support the capacity of community actors (groups, networks) and play a facilitative role in communities to help them achieve their goals. •Locally tailored planning and engagement processes are to support community and organisational leadership, through the development of mutual goals and solutions. •These processes draw upon combined community and organisational strengths.•Partnerships between agencies and with the community will be essential to supporting the community to achieve their goals. •Collaborative processes aim to support people to manage long term challenges (chronic stresses) while better preparing to cope and recovery from emergencies (acute shocks). •Volunteers are valuable and play an essential role in supporting community resilience.

What is the EM sectors role in achieving the resilience outcomes?

The emergency management sector cannot achieve our

vision alone