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CODA
The Community Organisations Disaster Adaptation (CODA) Project builds disaster preparedness and resilience among community service organisations and people most vulnerable to disaster impacts.
CODA also strengthens connections and cooperation between the community, community service organisations and Emergency Management to take action to reduce local disaster risks.
What will the CODA Project achieve and how?
What?
Communities are disaster resilient and take steps to reduce risks.
How?
- Sessions focused on disaster preparedness with people who are vulnerable, using resources such as Person-Centred Emergency Preparedness
- Promoting preparedness at community events.
What?
Local NGOs understand and reduce their own disaster risk and support disaster resilience in vulnerable groups.
How?
- Workshops, networking and resources e.g.
- Intro to Disaster Management, Business Continuity Planning
- Organisational readiness on agendas at interagency meetings
- Professional networks e.g. P-CEP Connect
What?
Disaster management staff:
- increase their understanding of disaster vulnerability, and
- recognise how community service organisations can support disaster preparedness and planning.
How?
- Local Emergency Services attend community preparedness sessions and engage in discussions
- Place-based community service organisations attend local disaster management meetings – Emergency Management Committees; Disaster Adaptation Planning – to provide ‘vulnerability lens’.
- Disaster management personnel provide updates at interagency meetings.
CODA Delivery Partners
Working with place-based community service organisations and specialist peaks ensures CODA best supports the communities in each region:
- AbSec (NSW Child, Family and Community Peak Aboriginal Corporation)
- Resilient Lismore, Disaster Ready Together Project
CODA Community of Practice
Community service organisations can take on many roles to support communities impacted by disasters and to help communities prepare. But what do these organisations need to meet the challenges of disasters and remain operating effectively?
The CODA Community of Practice focus areas are:
- Investigating the main roles (current and potential) of the NSW community service sector across the disaster management cycle – relief, recovery, mitigation and preparedness.
- Identifying the sector’s resourcing and development needs to effectively undertake these roles.
The CODA Project receives grant funding from the Australian and NSW Governments.
