Natural Disaster Resilience Program (NDRP)
In the 2009 Budget the Australian Government announced funding of $79.3 million over four years for a new Natural Disaster Resilience Program (NDRP).
The Program will consolidate the existing Bushfire Mitigation Program (BMP), the Natural Disaster Mitigation Programme (NDMP) and the National Emergency Volunteer Support Fund (NEVSF). This will enable States and Territories to more effectively prioritise and address the risks of a range of disasters and streamline the associated administrative processes.
The NDRP is a national program aimed at identifying and addressing disaster risk priorities, including through:
- disaster
mitigation works, measures and
related activities that contribute to
safer, sustainable communities better able to withstand the effects of disasters
and emergencies, particularly those arising from the impact of climate
change;
- support for
volunteers, particularly to
address the challenges of volunteer recruitment, retention and training. Projects may include initiatives to increase
the recruitment and retention of volunteers to emergency services and other
groups that contribute to individual
and community resilience;
- support for local
government, to assist them to
effectively discharge their emergency management responsibilities;
and
- encouraging partnerships with business and community groups to improve their ability to assist communities and be integrated in response and recovery activities and arrangements. The private sector owns many of the critical services that underpin communities, and have capacity to help communities prepare for, and recover from, emergencies and disasters.
The
Australian government is working with State and Territory governments to develop
this new program.
Once details are finalised they will be available on this website for your information.