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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?
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, for example,
- Introduction 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.
About the CODA Community of Practice sessions:
When: CODA Community of Practice dates will be confirmed later in 2025.
Each session is:
- 2 hours, online via Zoom
- Includes a presentation from community service organisations providing disaster support, followed by workshopping & discussion
- Session places will be limited
- Notes and resources available to attendees after each session
- Free!
There are four CODA Community of Practice sessions covering different themes.
- Disaster preparedness – people
- Incorporating client disaster preparedness planning into service delivery
- After the disaster – immediate relief & recovery
- Role/s of community service organisations
- Balancing disaster support and business-as-usual
- Disaster Mitigation
- Who is most at risk? Identifying and supporting the communities most at risk from disasters.
- Disaster preparedness – organisations
- What is required to ensure organisations are disaster ready?
You can attend all sessions or pick the sessions that are most relevant to you.
Who should attend?
- Community service organisation managers and staff.
- These sessions benefit from input from attendees to shape understanding and action on the role of the community sector in providing disaster support.
- Your experience or knowledge as a community service worker who has provided disaster support or engaged in organisational or sector planning to enable disaster support will be an essential element of the Community of Practice sessions.
For more information, contact Eleanor Harris, eleanor@ncoss.org.au. For more information on disaster support, check out the NCOSS Disaster Support pages.
CODA Community of Practice Expression of Interest
The CODA Project receives grant funding from the Australian and NSW Governments.
