Enhancing Community Resilience
Preparing communities for current and future changes to the climate.
Funded by the Minderoo Foundation, the Enhancing Community Resilience Project prepares communities in the SECCCA region for current and future changes to the climate, by improving community preparedness through practical actions, tools, and resources. Leveraging the outputs of the SECCCA Asset Vulnerability Assessment Project, the project also assessed the vulnerability of the SECCCA region’s community to climate change.
Working with SECCCA council members and climate science experts, the project identified and visualised the community services, demographics, locations, and communities that are exposed to the impacts of climate change.
The toolkit and reports provided below are intended for local governments across Australia to utilise and apply to build community resilience to climate change in their local area.
Co-design pilot projects
The project completed 3 pilot projects to illustrate its implementation: 1. internal co-design project, involving all 9 councils, examined the best way for organisations to understand and use the findings;
2. co-design project addressing the vulnerability of older people in Bayside City Council,
3. co-design project addressing the vulnerability of young people in Frankston City Council.
The document below is a collation of five reports from the three co-design pilot projects.
1. Organisation co-design: organisational capability to embed findings
Through a 4-step process via workshops, the project working group (nine local councils) worked together to identify the best ways councils can understand and embed the findings from this project to improve council services and enhance community climate resilience.
2. Bayside co-design: supporting older residents to adapt to extreme heat
*Note this resource is under review and not for external use.
Self assessment preparedness checklist
Map identifying places of refuge during extreme heat
3. Frankston co-design: building climate resilience among youth
Group of high school students created videos to share on social media to help other young people build resilience.
Paper 3:
Methods and Applications
Paper 6:
Replicating Project Process
DOWNLOAD TOOLKIT HERE
The Toolkit aims to help councils understand the problem to address, and provide clarity on what councils need to do in order to plan and establish a similar project, how to collate and analyse data, when to inform and engage the community, and what risks and barriers to identify.
SNAPSHOT SUMMARY
This summary report is intended to provide councils a snapshot of the project objectives, methodology and outputs.
FINAL REPORTS
Paper 1:
Definitions and Approaches
Paper 4:
Findings and Guidance
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
This project was completed in 2024 by consultants Spatial Vision, Science into Action and Scientell. Funded by the Minderoo Foundation.
Paper 2:
Vulnerable Populations
Paper 5:
Case Studies
CASE STUDIES
City of Greater Dandenong
A worked example of how the project’s output of data can be investigated and interpreted to support the development of a business case or plan. In this case for extreme heat in City of Greater Dandenong.
