Recovery Planning and Operations

Office of Emergency ManagementResilience & Recovery Branch

Recovery Operations 2013 - 2018

Lismore 2017

Forbes 2016

Blue Mountains 2013

Tathra and Districts 2018

Martin Place 2014

Torryburn 2015

Sir Ivan Fire 2017

Current Recovery Operations

Fire Recovery 3

Sir Ivan Fire – Feb 2017

Northern Rivers Flooding – March 2017

Tathra and Districts Fire – March 2018

Tathra and Districts Fire Recovery 4Department of Justice

Recovery begins at IMPACT

Recovery Liaison Officers in EOCs

Recovery Committees

Recovery Committee

Health and Wellbeing

Subcommittee

Issues to Consider

Health

Welfare

Housing

Transport

Education

Employment

Appeals/Fundraising

Donated Goods

InfrastructureSubcommittee

Issues to Consider

Roads and bridges

RecreationalFacilities

Public Buildings

Utilities and Telecommunications

Levees

Industry / Business

Subcommittee

Issues to Consider

Insurance

Small Business

Tourism

AgricultureSubcommittee

Issues to Consider

Primary Producers

Livestock

Fodder andAgistment

Fencing

Environment and Waste

Subcommittee

Issues to Consider

Debris / Waste

Asbestos

National Parks

Forests

Native Wildlife

Aquaculture

Weed Control (public)

Communications

Working Group

Community Reference Group

SERCON

Response – Recovery Transition

Response activities coordinated by the EOCON may continue concurrently with recovery activities coordinated by the Recovery Coordinator or SERCON:

Impact Assessments

Make safe activities

Resupply of isolated communities

Return of evacuees to their homes or alternative accommodation

Central Role of Local Government

8Fire Recovery

Local Recovery Planning Pilot 2018

10

Piloting recovery plan writing workshops with 5 LEMCs:

• City of Sydney

• Blue Mountains

• Tweed-Byron

• Northern Rivers

• Dungog

Integration into standard EM Planning 2019

Department of Justice

Recovery Planning Workshops

• Working group for LEMC

• Representation from agencies across 4

recovery environments

• Broad representation from Council

• Establishing Community Resilience Networks

Community feedback

Existing

arrangements/plan

focus mainly on

government agenciesLack of formal local &

regional recovery

planning

Lack of connection between

existing community networks

and formal recovery

structures

Community organisations

are key players in

communities and should be

recognised as key players in

recovery

Emergency management

and recovery

arrangements are not well

understood by local

communities

Communities

Community Resilience Networks Pilot

• Developing partnerships between emergency management committees and communities

• Drawing on local knowledge,

experience, capacity and skills

• Adopting an asset-based approach to

recovery – building on strengths

Community Resilience Network

Community Reference Group

- Local community organisations- Surf clubs, sporting clubs- Progress associations

- neighbourhood centres- Service organisations

Lions, Rotary, Country Women’s

- SES community Actions Teams

Community Resilience Network

- Community Service Providers- Business Connect Advisors - DPI Rural Resilience Officers- ESO Community Engagement

Officers- Volunteer Organisations- Neighbourhood Centres- Community Centres

Get Ready NSW

www.emergency.nsw.gov.au/getready

Projects and Partnerships

Engagement Toolkit

• Talking points

• Presentation

• Flyer

• Social media

• Posters

• Booklet

• Available for councils

www.industry.nsw.gov.au/businessready

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