Strengthen resilience through preparedness
Strengthen resilience through preparedness is one of the four organisational principles in the Queensland Reconstruction Authority (QRA) Strategic Plan 2025-29.
The objective, strategies and performance indicators under this principle are outlined below.
Objectives
- Queenslanders are more informed about their risk and how to recover from disaster
- Local governments have access to, and use fit for purpose tools, infrastructure and information that inform disaster risk
- Local governments and other delivery agents have the capability and capacity to delivery recovery activities and strengthen resilience
Strategies
- Prepare Queenslanders for disasters through targeted awareness campaigns and outreach activities under Get Ready Queensland and the If It’s Flooded, Forget It programs
- Partner with stakeholders to strengthen the whole- of-government preparedness message and what this means for individuals during disasters
- Partnership to improve measurement of resilience, including tracking drivers and indicators to support data-driven and adaptive policy
- Explore policy options to support homeowners to understand their flood and other natural hazard risks
- Collaborate with the insurance industry to better understand insurance pricing and linkages to disaster risk reduction activities
- Update the Queensland Disaster Risk Management (QDRM) approach to provide statewide consistency in understanding and assessing disaster risks
- Facilitate a whole of government approach to further enhance Queensland’s ability to manage its flood risk through ensuring best practice studies, plans and outputs are delivered
- Support local governments to understand their risks in a measured manner to influence resources and capability development in the sector and continue to develop and update Local Resilience Action Plans
- Complete annual engagement program with partners to measure effectiveness of support provided by QRA
Performance indicators
- Number of people in Queensland who intend to change behaviour following exposure to awareness campaigns increases each year
- Data analytics including Get Ready Queensland market research shows increased awareness of risk, resilience and how to be prepared