Fire to Flourish

An agenda for change: community-led disaster resilience.
While the 2019/20 summer bushfires were devastating for communities and individuals, they also provide an opportunity to approach disaster recovery and resilience-building with communities at the centre, reflecting the priorities of locals and helping to build pathways for thriving futures.
Fire to Flourish CEO Briony Rogers
The $50 million program will trial and scale a new model of community-led recovery that supports bushfire-affected communities to co-create the foundations for their long-term resilience and wellbeing.
Over five years, Fire to Flourish will focus on creating and embedding a long-lasting foundation for local leadership and action that can help drive recovery efforts in communities whose long-term experience of disadvantage was exacerbated by the 2019/20 summer bushfires.
Monash’s large-scale transdisciplinary approach will build an evidence base to demonstrate what can be achieved when communities are not just recipients of recovery funds, but are supported to lead their own recovery and resilience-building.
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- An Agenda for change: Community-led disaster resilience (final report)
- An Agenda for change: Community-led disaster resilience (executive summary)