Community Sector Disaster Capability (CSDC) Project Mapping Tool

The Community Sector Disaster Capability (CSDC) Project is jointly funded by the NSW and Australian Governments through the Local and Regional Stream of the Disaster Risk Reduction Fund (DRRF), a grant funding initiative established under the National Partnership Agreement on Disaster Risk Reduction. The DRRF is administered by the NSW Reconstruction Authority (RA). The CSDC project aims to strengthen the disaster risk reduction capability of local social service on government organisations (NGOs) to better support the wellbeing and safety of vulnerable community members (who can be hardest hit by disasters). Place-based NGOs are often involved in meeting needs after a disaster but are rarely formally engaged in emergency management agencies’ preventative action
and planning to reduce risks and community-based disaster planning and risk reduction efforts go largely unrecognised. Led by a partnership of three NSW peak bodies, the project pilots education, risk assessment and strategic planning activities in four regional locations across NSW which have recently experienced disasters and are at high risk of similar disasters in the future:
 Northern Rivers
 Hawkesbury
 Snowy Monaro
 Bega/ Eurobodalla.