Disaster Ready Fund

Disaster Ready Fund is sponsored by National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) (Commonwealth Government). The Disaster Ready Fund is the Australian Government's primary disaster resilience and risk reduction initiative.

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nema. gov.au/our-work/key-programs/disaster-ready-fund) The Disaster Ready Fund (DRF) is the Australian Government’s flagship initiative for disaster resilience and risk reduction. The Australian Government is providing up to one billion dollars through the DRF.

The funding runs over five years from 1 July 2023. The funding supports projects that help communities reduce risk from natural hazards and build resilience before disasters occur. NEMA administers the DRF.

We do this in partnership with state and territory government agencies responsible for emergency management. Our responsibilities include consulting with stakeholders to develop the guidelines for each DRF round, establishing the application process, and supporting the assessment of applications by an expert panel.

We manage the process to establish funding agreements between states and territories and the Australian Government, as well as working with state and territory emergency management agencies on project reporting requirements. 1. Increasing the understanding of disaster impacts.

Using this understanding to reduce the risk of future disaster impacts. 2. Increasing the resilience, adaptability, and preparedness of governments, community groups and, affected communities, to reduce impact of natural hazards and avert disasters.

3. Reducing the exposure to risk, harm and/or severity of a future disaster's impacts including reducing the recovery burden for governments, cohorts at a higher risk, and/or affected communities. For more details on our objectives, please read our Program Guidelines under key documentation below.

Round One provided $200 million of Australian Government investment for 185 projects in 2023-24. Successful projects under Round One were announced on 7 June 2023 and payments were made to states and territories on 7 December 2023. The list of projects is available below.

Australian Capital Territory | ACT Community Disaster Risk Knowledge Hub | Territory-wide | This project will provide an online, publicly available knowledge hub, for sharing information with community on hazards and risk, risk reduction, building resilience and disaster preparedness and recovery.

| $660,000 | $660,000 | $1,320,000 | Showing 1 to 10 of 13 entries *Final figures subject to schedule negotiations | AHO Disaster Ready Risk analysis - Business Case | State-wide | This project will undertake a detailed analysis on current AHO stock to provide data guiding the future strategic directions of both AHO and the Aboriginal Community Housing Sector.

It will inform an Extreme Weather Hazard Risk Analysis covering bushfire, flooding, heatwaves, and storms. | $504,269 | $506,638 | $1,010,907 | | A safer and more reliable Lower Bielsdown Road | Bellingen | This project will upgrade Lower Bielsdown Road to increase safety, reliability and resilience of the road from future major weather events.

The road acts as major form of connection for Tallowwood Ridge area, benefiting local residents, farmers and a growing tourism market. | $928,252 | $1,165,082 | $2,093,334 | | Bushfire Kids Connect School Community Disaster Risk Ready Project | State-wide | This project will address the lack of mental health resources for young people leading up to and following the trauma of a natural disaster.

Through the use of 3D technology to build risk reduction skills for young people who’ve been impacted by disaster, as a means to empower them to help their community. | $643,832 | $650,000 | $1,293,832 | | Delivery of Batemans Bay Coastal Protection Works | Eurobodalla | This project will design and construct four high priority coastal protection works in the Batemans Bay area.

This involves upgrades to essential services, road protection structures, rock walls and levees.

| $6,002,632 | $6,005,000 | $12,007,632 | | Fire, Country and People: Aboriginal Community Disaster Ready partnership | Multi-LGA: North Coast, Mid North Coast and Far North Coast NSW | This project will establish strategic and reciprocal partnerships with Aboriginal communities and organisations to reduce the risk, harm and/or severity of major and catastrophic bushfire events and other natural hazards.

It will involve traditional mapping and cultural knowledge, Aboriginal and other stakeholder co-design, Aboriginal employment, contracting and skills development.

| $1,477,632 | $1,480,000 | $2,957,632 | Showing 1 to 10 of 19 entries *Final figures subject to schedule negotiations | Enhanced Tri-service Communications in Regional & Remote Regions of the NT | Territory-wide | This project will implement APX Next Generation radios across all regional and remote Police and Fire Stations in the NT to enhance communication capabilities.

Territory-wide enhanced communications across the tri-service in emergency management responses. | $809,000 | $936,538 | $1,745,538 | | National Highway Network – Flood Resilience Assessment | Territory-wide | This project will assess the current flood resilience of the Northern Territory National Highways under a range of flooding scenarios.

It will provide consolidated data and evidence that will inform future upgrades to increase flood resilience of the NT National Highways and better disaster response planning.

| $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $2,000,000 | | Northern Territory Remote Aerodromes - Resilience Assessment | Territory-wide | This project will assess the current resilience of 69 NT Government maintained remote aerodromes under a range of major disaster event scenarios.

This will provide consolidated data and evidence that will inform future aerodrome upgrades to increase the resilience of 69 remote NT aerodromes and better disaster response planning.

| $1,000,000 | $1,000,000 | $2,000,000 | | NT Flood Warning Systems communications upgrade project | Territory-wide | This project will support the ongoing operation of the flood warning system to ensure monitoring sites have the latest communications technology to communicate with the alerting system.

An operational flood warning system ensures that Territorians get adequate warning and information about floods so they can protect their families, livestock and property. | $185,000 | $190,000 | $375,000 | | NT-wide flood data management and storage system | Territory-wide | This project will support accessibility and useability of relevant and timely flood data to support critical decision-making.

It will provide a technical solution to enable the consistent and reliable sharing of flood data to end-users, and improve an understanding of flood risk across the Northern Territory.

| $360,000 | $527,903 | $887,903 | | Structural Monitoring of Darwin Buildings Under Earthquake Loading | Darwin, Litchfield, Palmerston | The project will install instruments in a number of buildings in the city to monitor their response to large earthquakes in the region, to establish a real-world structural monitoring data set for Australia.

| $150,000 | $150,000 | $300,000 | | Sustainable Disaster Relief Food Solutions in Northern Australia | Unincorporated NT; Tiwi Islands; Barkly; Roper Gulf; East Arnhem; West Arnhem; West Daly | This project will provide regional and remote infrastructure to coordinate the efficient distribution of food to communities in the event of a natural disaster.

It will increase disaster resilience capacity and capability across the NT, with a particular focus on the provision of food relief for vulnerable people living in remote and isolated communities in times of disaster.

| $1,150,000 | $1,150,000 | $2,300,000 | | Trial Satellite Internet Across Tri-service Communications Network | Territory-wide | This project will trial satellite internet technology across the tri-service communications network and connectivity with drones to assess disaster sites to obtain critical incident information. This will enhance critical incident information capabilities for emergency management responses.

| $140,000 | $295,000 | $435,000 | | Volunteer Community Engagement Course | Territory-wide | This project will develop a training package so that NT Emergency Service volunteers can attain relevant skills to deliver community engagement programs across the NT, increasing capability to deliver flood, cyclone and storm education in remote communities across the NT.

| $108,000 | $112,750 | $220,750 | Showing 1 to 9 of 9 entries *Final figures subject to schedule negotiations | Backflow device automation in Brisbane’s CBD | Brisbane | The Backflow device automation in Brisbane’s CBD project will modify existing assets to enable automation which will minimise the need for staff to access these sites during a flood emergency event, enabling a safer response for service operators and the community.

| $150,000 | $150,644 | $300,644 | | Bluff Township Flood Mitigation Channel Construction | Central Highlands | This project will see construction take place on Council land to redirect floodwater away from the Capricorn Highway which will in turn build community resilience and reduce reliance on recovery efforts in the future.

| $396,490 | $400,000 | $796,490 | | Bray Park - Leone Street - Drainage Construction | Moreton Bay | This project is a drainage upgrade project and will introduce additional drainage infrastructure to capture stormwater flows and more effectively discharge these, reducing flooding risks on the otherwise subjected properties.

| $2,095,000 | $2,095,000 | $4,190,000 | | Building Evacuation and Sheltering Capacity-Assessment of Places of Refuge | Cairns | This project will ensure minimum evacuation and sheltering requirements are met by filling critical situational awareness gaps through updated assessments of places of refuge within the area.

| $40,000 | $40,000 | $80,000 | | Building Resilience in the Agricultural South Burnett | South Burnett | This project will build and enhance the natural disaster resilience of the agricultural South Burnett through strategic support of agribusinesses, by facilitating partnerships, review and support of business operation, all by a collaborative approach to leading by effecting change and building capacity to establish long term stability.

| $288,500 | $291,520 | $580,020 | | Chinaman Creek Dam – Monitoring and Early Warning Systems Project | Cloncurry | This project will improve current monitoring and early warning systems to ensure assets are managed and associated risks are mitigated by Council. Ensuring a best practice response and preparedness activities can be laid out and communicated by council to the community.

| $150,000 | $150,000 | $300,000 | | City of Gold Coast Severe Wind Strata Study and Industry Engagement | Gold Coast | The project will complete a study of strata stock and deliver an industry engagement strategy to increase the cities understanding of evacuation and refuge options during very rare severe tropical cyclone events that have been indicated to be more likely in the future for the area.

| $200,000 | $275,000 | $475,000 | | Coastal Protection Works-Karragarra Island | Redland | This project will deliver a seawall along the affected section of foreshore to enable reconstruction and protection of the road and the electrical infrastructure from further damage and provides long term projection from future erosion.

This solution will provide the community with continued access to the rest of the Island as well as the ferry terminal and will reduce risk to their power supply.

| $173,455 | $173,455 | $346,910 | Showing 1 to 10 of 50 entries *Final figures subject to schedule negotiations | All Hazards Emergency Management Mobile Care Centre | State-wide | This project, delivered by SAVEM Inc, will build and commission a multifunctional bespoke vehicle to deploy state-wide in all phases of emergency management: prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery.

| $751,437 | $755,000 | $1,506,437 | | Bushfire Preparedness -Boandik, Meintangk, Portaruwutji and Southern Tang | Limestone Coast Region | This project will enable the purchase of equipment for the Burrandies fire crew, to undertake Fire Batement work on Aboriginal managed lands and on other land tenders.

| $417,874 | $425,000 | $842,874 | | Emergency Management State Strategic Risks | State-wide | This project will identify and assess strategic risks within South Australia’s emergency management environment and recommend improved strategies, structures, and systems for ongoing management of those risks.

| $242,873 | $261,577 | $504,451 | | Encounter Bay Coastal Protection | City of Victor Harbor | This project will deliver a protection strategy for Franklin Parade (esplanade) from Fell Street to the Boat Ramp. This will detail the engineered protection measures required to protect against sea level rise and storm surges for public assets and amenities.

| $172,874 | $380,000 | $552,874 | | Enhanced Resilient Asset Delivery (ERAD) Program | Holdfast Bay; Marion; Onkaparinga; Mitcham | This project will develop, demonstrate, and embed multi-asset and multi-hazard risk and options and pathways assessment capabilities, methodologies, tools, and governance that underpin strategic place-based and values-informed resilience investment plans and fundable resilience investment cases.

| $1,492,724 | $1,498,000 | $2,990,724 | | Flood Defence: Technical & Practical Lessons -River Murray Flood | State-wide | This project will capture the lessons learned in South Australia, and facilitate input by peer organisations nationally, enabling effective responses nationally to the intensifying incidence and impact of flood events, climate volatility and medium-term climate change.

| $30,874 | $38,000 | $68,874 | | Forecasting Ground Displacements Future Earthquakes | Franklin Harbour, Cleve, Whyalla | This project will use geospatial data obtained from aerial vehicles satellites and field studies to map tectonically active faults near major infrastructure projects in South Australia.

| $1,150,874 | $1,827,000 | $2,977,874 | Showing 1 to 10 of 22 entries *Final figures subject to schedule negotiations | A Natural Hazards Atlas for Tasmania: mapping natural hazards. | State-wide | This project will support the delivery of an easy access online Natural Hazards Atlas which will contribute significantly to ensuring information required for adaptation and resilience planning is broadly accessible.

| $2,247,890 | $2,251,641 | $4,499,531 | | Building Resilience to Flood in the Derwent Valley | Derwent Valley | This project will increase the resilience of the Derwent Valley in key catchments and address risk of flash flooding by implementing works on infrastructure to minimise the potential impact of flood events | $879,500 | $882,436 | $1,761,936 | | City of Hobart: Willow Removal Project | Hobart | This project will support the investigation and removal of Crack Willow infestation through the City of Hobart’s waterways.

It will deliver reduced risk through remediation and revegetation of effected waterways.

| $550,000 | $550,000 | $1,100,000 | | Energy Security for the South Arm Community Evacuation Centre | Clarence, South Arm | This project will support the delivery of a more stable electricity supply to the South Arm Peninsula through solar power and battery storage and an NBN fixed disaster satellite service to decrease vulnerability in a high bushfire risk area.

| $35,582 | $37,500 | $73,082 | | Enhancing landslide risk mitigation in Tasmania’s urban zones | Sorrell; West Tamar; Break O’Day | This project will combine skills and techniques used nationally and internationally with expertise at Mineral Resources Tasmania and UTAS to evaluate and optimise engineering techniques for landslide prone areas in the state.

| $701,499 | $756,546 | $1,458,045 | | Flood Intelligence & Early Warning Detection System | Launceston | This project will develop an early warning detection system to provide live data and visual intelligence. This will address gaps identified during recent floods and is expected to allow more time for critical operational decisions.

| $200,500 | $200,500 | $401,000 | | Integrated Hazard Vulnerability Assessment | Hobart | This project seeks to increase the City of Hobart’s capacity and capability to understand it’s communities’ exposure to climate risk and support the development of responses to mitigate exposure and build disaster resilience and adaptation pathways.

| $751,233 | $752,000 | $1,503,233 | | Interoperable Flood & Swift Water Response Project | State-wide | This project will support the delivery of a Level 1 water and flood awareness training package to equip around 3000 TasPol, TFES, SES and associated volunteers with best practise flood water rescue training and skills.

| $160,000 | $213,397 | $373,397 | Showing 1 to 10 of 19 entries *Final figures subject to schedule negotiations | Assessing future impacts of heatwaves on the health of Victorians | State-wide | This project will model future impacts of heatwaves on health and health service demand in Victoria under various greenhouse gas emission, intervention, and adaptive capacity scenarios.

This will enhance the Victorian health system and broader sectors’ capability to implement more targeted risk reduction interventions, and to prepare for and respond to health impacts of heatwaves.

| $238,227 | $238,227 | $476,454 | | Business case for Emergency Preparedness model for people with disability | State-wide | This project will support people with disability (PWD) to be involved in developing their emergency preparedness plans at all levels. A business case will be developed for a staged state-wide rollout of Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness (P-CEP) model for Victoria’s people with disability community.

It will focus on increasing awareness and the benefits of P-CEP in disaster risk reduction to increase P-CEP uptake and foster collaborative emergency management planning approaches.

| $176,749 | $373,097 | $549,846 | | Campaspe Shire Flood Review & Mitigation Project | Campaspe | This project will review and develop a Risk Management Plan to increase community resilience in Campaspe Shire, after Murray, Campaspe and Goulburn Rivers flooding.

The project will deliver a review, detailed investigation, functional design, cost estimates and approvals which will construct the first stage of flood protection recommendations. It will also acquire critical infrastructure to protect essential services and town access points in the event of a flood.

| $1,087,440 | $1,109,917 | $2,197,357 | | Centre of Excellence - Young People and Disasters | State-wide | This project will create a Centre of Excellence (CoE) on Young People and Disasters. The CoE will become a leading hub for evidence-based, innovative, and cutting-edge approaches to involve young people as active agents in disaster management, preparedness, response and recovery, and community resilience building.

| $2,197,332 | $2,197,544 | $4,394,876 | | Corangamite Flood Study - Stage 2 Data Acquisition | Corangamite | This study will provide flood mapping for the entire municipality to reduce flood risks. Previous scoping has identified the need for LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) data.

This project will acquire LiDAR data through the Statewide Digital Twin Victoria (DTV) and Coordinated Imagery Program (CIP) to inform flood modelling in the next stages of the flood study. | $218,635 | $218,635 | $437,270 | | Corryong Advanced Microgrid (CAM) | Towong | This project seeks to build the energy resilience of Corryong, which was recently disconnected from the electricity grid for over a month due to bushfire.

By establishing an Advanced Microgrid that would provide electricity to a large area of the town with the ability to provide electricity for an extended period, allowing essential services and the community to respond to the emergency and in some cases continue business. | $7,000,000 | $8,000,000 | $15,000,000 | | Flood Asset Infrastructure Upgrade | Swan Hill | This project will reduce flooding risk in Swan Hill and Robinvale.

It will upgrade antiquated drainage infrastructure, pump systems, and other assets with current technology. Fit for purpose infrastructure will reduce the impact of flooding on assets and reduce safety risks to staff who manage the system during flooding events.

| $852,621 | $853,960 | $1,706,581 | | Glengarry Flood Mitigation Design and Construction - Stage One | Latrobe | This project will analyse the options available to Latrobe City Council to deliver and operate flood mitigation assets. This project will design and construct swales (small channels) and levees on Brooks Lane and Traralgon-Maffra Road, Glengarry.

Implementation of the first stage for a network of swale drains and levees will provide 1% Annual Exceedance Probability (AEP) flood protection to significantly improve flood protection for a large section of the Glengarry township and residences.

| $500,000 | $500,000 | $1,000,000 | | Greater Geelong Connected Network Analysis – Flood Mitigation | Greater Geelong | The project will deliver catchment modelling and a preliminary investigation to address recent major flash flooding incidents. The study will focus on highest risk areas and will support drainage upgrades or water management solutions.

This project will include community consultation and deliver up-to-date information for building and planning controls and emergency management modelling. | $250,000 | $738,900 | $988,900 | | Hodgson and Burgoigee Creeks Flood channel asset repair and replacement | Wangaratta | This project aims to halt and reverse active streambed incision processes to protect natural processes, public and private assets.

This will be achieved through the repair and/or replacement of priority existing grade control structures damaged by the December 2018 flood event. A program of stock exclusion and revegetation will also be implemented for long-term protection of the system.

| $210,315 | $210,315 | $420,630 | Showing 1 to 10 of 31 entries *Final figures subject to schedule negotiations | City of Joondalup Bushfire Risk Reduction Project | Joondalup | This project will conduct comprehensive review of the City of Joondalup's Bushfire Risk Management Plan and implement strategies to mitigate the risk of bushfires, safeguarding the well-being and functioning of the local community, environment, and economy.

Furthermore, the project will develop and deliver a Bushfire Community Education Program, aimed at raising awareness and educating the community about bushfire safety and preparedness.

| $216,045 | $216,045 | $432,090 | | Cunderdin Evacuation Centre Upgrades | Shire of Cunderin | This project will upgrade the Cunderdin Evacuation Centre into a fully functional and standalone emergency evacuation centre with its own power and water supply. This will increase the resilience and preparedness of the Shire of Cunderdin during a natural disaster.

| $82,750 | $82,750 | $165,500 | | Drone Monitoring of At-Risk Coastal Areas Using Aboriginal Drone Operators | Rockingham; Dardanup; Mandurah; Harvey; Murray; Bunbury; Busselton; Capel; Waroona | This project will capture the intra-annual changes of the coastal terrain at the beach level to establish an effective risk management strategy that encompasses planning, development, and mitigation of extreme events along the coast.

It will enable better decision-making and proactive measures to reduce the impact of coastal hazards. | $125,690 | $168,000 | $293,690 | | Enhancing Disaster Resilience and Climate Justice in Community Services | State-wide | This project focuses on creating and implementing tools and resources to assist the community services sector in Western Australia be more resilient to natural hazards and disasters.

| $892,362 | $907,511 | $1,799,873 | | Family-Centred Disaster Resilience Gallery | State-wide | This project will establish a family-centred gallery experience that aligns with disaster resilience education principles, offering a reliable source of information about emergencies and disasters.

The gallery experience at the Centre will serve as a valuable resource for promoting disaster preparedness and education in an engaging and accessible manner.

| $500,000 | $502,000 | $1,002,000 | | Fire Behaviour Predictions and Advice | State-wide | This project will create a standardized set of interagency processes, approved models, tools, and workflows for the development and application of fire spread predictions within Western Australia. The aim is to establish a consistent and coordinated approach across multiple agencies involved in fire management.

| $52,550 | $54,234 | $106,784 | Showing 1 to 10 of 22 entries *Final figures subject to schedule negotiations Round Two of the DRF provided $200 million of Australian Government investment for 171 projects in 2024-25. On 28 August 2024 the Minister for Emergency Management announced Round Two of the DRF would fund 164 projects.

Following this announcement, a number of projects faced changing circumstances meaning they were unable to proceed. On 20 November 2024 the Minister endorsed several other projects, in line with the funding recommendations made by the Assessment Panel. The additional projects ensured the full $200 million in Australian Government funding available under Round Two was utilised.

Payments to Western Australia, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria and the Northern Territory were made on 7 February 2025. Payments to Queensland and the Australian Capital Territory were made on 7 April 2025 _. _ The list of projects is available below.

Australian Capital Territory | Community Education Tools and Benchmarking | ACT - Unincorporated ACT | This project aims to strengthen community resilience by utilising interactive teaching tools and gaining insights into the disaster preparedness of the ACT community. Through diverse activities like Simtable and Virtual Reality tools, the project seeks to engage residents actively.

Additionally, funding will support a consulting initiative to explore deeper into the community's dynamics and their relationship with disaster resilience.

| $290,000 | $290,000 | $580,000 | | EmergencyRedi for the ACT’s CALD communities | ACT - Unincorporated ACT | This project will deliver EmergencyRedi workshops and one-on-one sessions throughout the ACT, focusing on the needs of people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Participants will learn practical actions they can take to minimise disaster risk and impacts.

They will understand disaster risk in the ACT and develop plans to mitigate that risk. This will lead to more informed decision-making and increased levels of physical and emotional preparedness.

| $937,414 | $937,414 | $1,874,828 | | Improved flood resilience for Canberra Avenue and nearby community assets | ACT - Unincorporated ACT | This project will reduce climate-related flood risks to an arterial road and a constructed wetland by modelling the effects of climate change on flooding in Jerrabomberra Creek; increasing the flow capacity of the creek threatening the arterial road; placing a serviceable sediment trap within the creek to increase flood resilience, and raising the levee between the creek and a recently constructed water quality wetland to resist flooding.

| $615,000 | $997,542 | $1,612,542 | | Improving the Resilience of ACT’s Urban Forest | ACT - Unincorporated ACT | This project aims to strengthen Canberra’s urban forest to enhance the ACT’s liveability and resilience to the impacts of climate change related natural hazards.

The project will implement a proactive maintenance program to increase public tree resilience to storm events, reduce the risk of tree hazards caused by storms, and extend the life of trees in the urban environment to help combat urban heat. | $2,888,279. 97 | $4,787,785 | $7,676,064.

97 | | Increasing vulnerable households' resilience to heatwaves through installation of thermally backed curtains | ACT - Unincorporated ACT | The project will leverage an existing program to expand the delivery of thermally backed curtains and pelmets (in two living areas) to an additional 500 low-income and vulnerable households in the ACT over two-years.

The project will increase the resilience of participating households to heatwaves and extreme heat/cold by improving thermal comfort, reducing energy use and costs, and supporting improved health and wellbeing.

| $560,000 | $599,455 | $1,159,455 | | Strengthening ACT social recovery partnerships and community engagement | ACT - Unincorporated ACT | This project will strengthen the preparedness, planning, coordination and response capacity of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) government and our social recovery community partners.

This will ensure ACT social recovery efforts contribute to a stronger more resilient Canberra community and support people throughout their recovery journey from immediate relief to long term recovery to regain a sense of sustained wellbeing and the ability to thrive.

| $612,245 | $612,245 | $1,224,490 | | Supporting ACT Community Sector Organisations in Preparing for the Impacts of Climate Change | ACT - Unincorporated ACT | This project will build the adaptive capacity of community sector organisations (CSOs) to manage and respond to the increasing risk from natural hazards under a changing climate.

It will deliver a fit-for-purpose climate hazard risk management and adaptation ‘toolkit’, developed through a co-design process and trialled with the sector, which will guide CSOs in identifying key risks to their services and support development of effective risk management and adaptation plans.

| $621,182 | $733,805 | $1,354,987 | | Territory Wide Risk Reduction Implementation | ACT - Unincorporated ACT | A Territory-Wide Risk Register (TWRR) allows us to learn from past emergencies and crises, plan for future disruptions, and identify opportunities to enhance community resilience.

The proposed project will allow the ACT to implement, monitor, review and enhance the TWRR to provide the foundation for understanding disaster risks, monitoring effectiveness of existing risk management, and identify opportunities to improve risk treatment, reduction, recovery and build whole-of-government capability.

| $858,178 | $859,000 | $1,717,178 | Showing 1 to 9 of 9 entries | Aboriginal Communities Emergency Mangement Program (ACEMP) | NSW - Clarence Valley, Cobar, Kempsey, Kyogle, Mid-Coast, Mid-Western, Nambucca Valley, Port Macquarie-Hastings, Port Stephens, Walgett | This project expands on a pilot ensuring Discrete Aboriginal Communities (DACs) are prepared to respond to and recover from disasters.

Through identifying and strengthening sustainable local emergency management partnership with DACs, ACEMP can inform and influence emergency management through Aboriginal leadership, research and co-design – ensuring Aboriginal knowledge and emergency management frameworks are appropriately integrated in prevention, preparedness, response and recovery.

| $3,687,244 | $4,344,358 | $8,031,602 | | Aboriginal Peoples Engagement Program | NSW - All | NSW State Emergency Services (SES) will partner with Aboriginal peoples to co-design a program incorporating cultural safety, how to warn community and understanding how First Nations people prepare for and respond to the impact of floods.

This includes understanding the cultural barriers to evacuation and how best to reduce risk for Aboriginal peoples.

| $1,843,000 | $2,213,763 | $4,056,763 | | Accessibility and compliance infrastructure enhancements to PCYC Gunnedah as a disaster and emergency evacuation centre | NSW - Gunnedah | Gunnedah Local Emergency Management Committee (LEMC), identified Gunnedah PCYC as the preferred venue for establishment as an Emergency Evacuation Centre (EEC).

Proposed capital works will address accessibility, compliance and functionality gaps (accessible entry/exit, kitchen/bathrooms refurbishments with a designated