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.