NRCRA is a regional alliance of grassroots,
community-led place-based resilience-building groups
Resilient Lismore is a founding member of the Alliance, and we are deeply committed to supporting it’s development.
Connected, collaborative Northern Rivers communities that are empowered to care for themselves and each other before, during and after disasters.
To develop a self-sustaining, trusted Alliance of place-based, community-led resilience groups and organisations.
The Alliance will share knowledge and resources; provide mutual support and wellbeing; take collective action, and advocate for identified community needs.
Reducing duplication and building skills by sharing our knowledge and ideas.
Collective impact through working together and seeking shared funding opportunities.
Building regional connectivity between community resilience groups, so we can support each other.
Seeking inclusion and good communication between government and communities.
NRCRA was formed in March 2024 in response to the growing awareness of the need for regional grassroots collaboration. Local research demonstrates that since the catastrophic 2022 floods and landslides, community organisers have borne the brunt of disaster response, recovery, and adaptation.
Community members have contributed thousands of volunteer hours developing sophisticated community-based systems, skills, knowledge bases, and organisational capacity at the local level.
They have accumulated expertise in community-led disaster recovery with little formal support and have expressed a growing need for a peer support network which NRCRA will provide. Â
NRCRA welcomes all place-based, community-led groups and organisations in the Northern Rivers, with an interest in preparing communities for future disasters to join.
NRCRA is also interested to engage with other organisations that support the development of community resilience, and with government, by invitation.
The Next Step Event
Disasters are Done Better Together
DONORS & PARTNERS
That we are living and working together to recover from this climate disaster on Bundjalung Country, and pay our deepest respects to Elders past and present.
