Meet the RCO team - Deborrah Jepsen
Specialty: I turn strategies and ideas into real on the ground projects for communities. With a focus currently in public safety, I work...
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Meet the RCO team - Madelyn Lackman
Specialty: I specialise in disaster resilience, disaster risk reduction and sustainable development practices and principles. I work with...
Meet the RCO team - Natalie Staaks
Specialty: I’m a crisis and disaster resilience specialist. That means I work with clients and communities across a number of usually...
Connecting business continuity to community
Business continuity is not often top of mind when communities, councils and statutory authorities are plunged into disaster response. The...
The story of Millgrove and building a more resilient community
The Millgrove community in Victoria is in the top 5 most vulnerable communities in the country that is exposed to the threat of...
Meet the RCO team - Tia Baptista
Tia's specialty: I specialise in project management and stakeholder engagement; both firmly grounded within the disaster resilience and...
Meet the RCO team - Mirna Arivalagan
Mirna's specialty: I’m a data and analytics specialist. What this means is that I am able to gather information from various sources and...
Community as active emergency participants
The importance of community knowledge and connection in emergencies came through loud and clear in interviews with Gannawarra Shire...
Moving from response into recovery
Local government is best placed to support their communities through disasters. That’s true, but it also creates an expectation by the...
Surf Coast building on the strengths of the systems in place
We’ve spent a bit of time at the beach recently (kind of literally), working with a couple of very switched on councils keen to...
Dreaming big in Millgrove for a resilient community
The small community of Millgrove, in Victoria, is part of a nationwide project funded by the Minderoo Foundation that promotes...
It's a marathon not a sprint
Reflections from ResilientCo Managing Director Brett Ellis : It’s a marathon not a sprint. I’ve heard those words a lot in the Ganawarra...
Local government in partnership
Recently the ResilientCo team headed out to Colac to conduct a tabletop discussion exercise with the Otway District Emergency Management...
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction
October 13 is the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction. This year the focus of the day, aligned to the Sendai Framework, is to...
Using data in disaster resilience
Enabling local community disaster preparedness and building community resilience by improving the quality of data about community...
Benchmarking resilience as a business
ResilientCo was recently engaged by a retail property group to deliver a Community Resilience Plan that aligns with Green Star...
Supporting young people to navigate the climate crisis
University of Melbourne has worked with children and young people aged 12-25 in Victoria, Australia to co-design a strengths-based...
Becoming DisasterSmart
ResilientCo is working with municipalities through our DisasterSmart program to help them prepare for, manage and recover from complex...
Preparing for another La Nina
This summer, the focus is once again on flood and storms in some parts of Australia. The Bureau of Meteorology has declared the third La...
Supporting resilience in communities
A collaborative program aims to strengthen the capability of an ‘at risk’ community to respond to future shocks and stresses such as...
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