Timeline: 2024 -

Partners: City of Logan, Flagstone State Community College

Funding: Queensland Reconstruction Authority

Details coming soon....

Timeline: March 2022 - 2023

Project partner(s): Colac Otway Shire/Surf Coast Shire; DELWP; CFA; EMV

Funding: Safer Together: Strengthening Community Partnerships for Bushfire Management with Local Government, VIC Government

Project summary: For over 10 years communities and agencies in the COS/SCS footprint have been working with a strategic intent of building connections, understandings and resilience in the bushfire (and other emergency) risk landscapes of the Otways.

Key communities have developed varying collaborations and activities to create different, localised planning systems. These have been ad-hoc, separate and dependent on key community leaders/ organisations and various department projects and programs, that are subject to funding streams and/or agency capacity. This has been effective to a point and now requires investment in these community leaders/organisations in partnership with key agencies. Community Based Emergency Leadership (CBEL) provides a progressive model that will complement the existing strategic intent in the Otways.

Key objectives are:
• To provide an opportunity for the community and government to share information via existing and emerging systems, which will support planning and decision making processes as they continue to be developed
• To develop current and emerging leaders within the communities, to lesson future dependency on government
• Build relationships via existing networks, workshops and scenarios towards strategic, sustainable PPRR practices in a localised setting.
• Build on existing connections between communities, Local Government, and other agencies, based on a a strengths based approach