This portal hosts a range of resources and information to help with building disaster resilience in your community, from learning more about disasters to taking action. Browse the collection below to get started. New resources will be added over time to support your disaster resilience planning and activities.
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View a community's resilience journey
Millgrove's Resilience Journey Map and Video
Learn more about fire, flood and other hazards
Understanding Hazards Collection
Explore the history of disasters in Australia
Australian Disaster Mapper
Find tools and tips to make an emergency plan
Emergency planning tools
Read about community recovery
Community Recovery Handbook
Read about community engagement
Community Engagement for Disaster Resilience Handbook
Read about emergency planning
Emergency Planning Handbook
Explore the Resilient Communities Framework
Get inspired by award-winning resilience projects
Resilient Australia Awards
Watch a documentary series by ABC TV
Big Weather (and how to survive it)
Hear from disaster recovery experts
Recovery Matters webinar series
Watch a documentary on community recovery
People's Republic of Mallacoota
The Community-Led Resilience Program aims to strengthen the capability of a community to respond to future shocks and stresses such as fire, floods and climate change.
The Community-Led Resilience Program is supported by the Minderoo Foundation and is part of the Resilient Communities Mission. The Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience and EllisKent are working together to deliver this program. Find out more.
The small community of Millgrove, in Victoria, is is the first community of 50 Australia-wide identified by the Minderoo Foundation to undertake a community planning process that promotes community-led resilience to natural hazards.
Supported by the Australian Institute of Disaster Resilience (AIDR) and ResilientCo, the Millgrove Resident Action Group (MRAG) dreamed big and to pull together a plan with small and large projects designed to lift Millgrove’s resilience.
