Developing a Resilience Framework for EM in Victoria

Stage 1: Mapping Potential Community Resilience Outcomes & Resilience Challenges

Lew Short, Jamie Devenish, Will Symons, Victoria Chantra

Purpose & Agenda Today’s objectives: -To introduce work done to date towards the development of a community resilience framework for the EM sector -To test initial concepts that would inform the development of a resilience framework for the EM sector

Today’s Agenda Time Item Presenter/type of

session

20 mins Welcome, project context and work done to date Lew Short

20 mins Resilience challenges and desired community resilience outcomes

Lew Short

90 mins Exploring desired community resilience outcomes -Table exercise in small groups (20 mins)-Active report back & discussion (10 mins each)

Facilitated group exercise Victoria Chantra

20 mins Next steps Lew Short

Background & Context

“The world has entered the era of ‘mega

crisis’ or catastrophic emergencies’

whose force and magnitude defy even the

best laid plans and the most robust

response systems”Professor Paul ‘t Hart

To test the initial concepts that

may form the community

resilience framework for the EM

sector

Alignment a

t a Sector L

evel

What is the Resilience Framework seeking?

Resilience is

Conceived

Perceived, &

Communicated

very differently.

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 grow no

matter what kinds of chronic stresses and

acute shocks they experience

Source: 100 RC

Problem Statement: Building safer and more resilient communities is not

well understood

&

The emergency management sector cannot achieve this vision alone

2010 2012 2014 2016

Project Context

Project overview and indicative timing

The project is anticipated to run from March to August 2016. The three project stages are: •Stage 1 (March – early June 2016)•Stage 2 (Mid June – Mid-July 2016); and •Stage 3 (Mid July to end August 2016).

Stage 1Report summarising

challenges, community outcomes and EM roles.

Stage 2Stakeholder

consultation on Stage 1 findings and framework

outline,

Stage 3Development of

Community Resilience Framework and

guidance

Objectives

• Community focused

• Community better understands

stresses and shocks & takes

action before, during & after

emergencies

• Improved connection &

collaboration

• Improve capacity of EM to

connect with our communities

Understanding context

1 2 3 4 5 6…..Years

Initial concepts for consideration

Key concepts for consideration

Identified Resilience Challenges • Economic transition and diversification

• Increasing cost of disasters + changing insurance market

• Rural decline and centralisation

• Climate change, including increasing intensity and frequency of extreme events

• Sea level rise• Changes to ecosystems

• Ageing population • Decreasing

household size and increasing number of dwellings

• Increasing cultural and linguistic diversity

• Population growth and urbanisation

• Inequality and spatial disadvantage

• Changing nature of community engagement

• Violent extremism• Pandemic and

biosecurity • Changing nature of

volunteerism • Increasing influence

of technology, data, and communications

• Rapid pace of change

• Land use changes + integrated planning

• Infrastructure stress and critical failure

Key concepts for consideration

Potential Community resilience outcomes

Key concepts for consideration

Group Exercise

1. Each table has one of the 7 desired community resilience outcomes

2. Consider: - What is the EM sectors role in

achieving the potential outcomes?

3. Be ready to report back to the group and to discuss other group’s outcomes.

• Stage 1 Report• Workshops x 5 (June) • Draft Community Resilience

Framework outline (July) • Draft Framework (August)• Framework as a lens for

review over the summer period

Where to from here…

The emergency management sector cannot achieve our

vision alone