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Attachment E

SNAPSHOT of ACT Natural Disaster Resilience Program (NDRP) Projects related to Resilience and Mitigation strategies

2009/10

Mitigation
OR Resilience / ORG / PROJECT / Description / $ Value
Cwlth Recipient / $Total project cost
MITIGATION / Territory & Municipal Services (TaMs) / Bushfire Operations Plan / 10,000 / 10,000 / 20,000
RESILIENCE / TaMs / Local Disease control centre connectivity / Design and install of Electrical works and ACTGOV Network / 50,000 / 50,000 / 100,000
MITIGATION / Community Services / Fire mitigation of Public housing in vulnerable ember zone / 300,000 / 300,000 / 600,000
RESILIENCE / Education / Gungahlin College - Provision of back-up power supply, enabling college to be used as Emergency Evacuation Centre / Design and install of Electrical works / 10,000 / 10,000 / 20,000

2010/11

Mitigation
OR Resilience / ORG / PROJECT / Description / $ Value
Cwlth Recipient / $Total project cost
RESILIENCE / Education / Gungahlin College - Provision of back-up power supply, enabling college to be used as Emergency Evacuation Centre / Additional electrical work and installation of back-up generator / 90,000 / 90,000 / 180,000
MITIGATION / TaMs / Bushfire mitigation and preparedness / Decreasing the impact of unplanned wildfire posed to Territory assets by an increased fuel reduction program, and associated Fire Management works / 753,000 / 756,100 / 1,509,100
MITIGATION / Commissioner of Social Services / Bushfire Fuel Reduction / Program to cover clients in housing with mental or physical illness / 150,000 / 150,000 / 300,00
MITIGATION / TWRA (NPP) / 150,000 / Not required / 150,000

* There were a number of other projects – but they do not specifically fall into either Resilience or Mitigation

2011/12

Mitigation
OR Resilience / ORG / PROJECT / Description / $ Value
Cwlth Recipient / $Total project cost
RESILIENCE / CSD / Preparedness in vulnerable communities / Provide training and resources to community leaders, to work with community to increase resilience. / 50,000 / 50,000 / 100,000
RESILIENCE / ESA / Flood Diversion / Acquire Barriers and pumping equipment, in response to flood events. / 100,000 / 100,000 / 200,000
MITIGATION / ACT Rural Fire Service / Integrate the ACT incident mgt arrangements into NSW ICON / Enhance ACT’s ability to mitigate risks to public and firefighter safety. / 50,000 / 50,000 / 100,000
MITIGATION / ACT Rural Fire Service / Wildfire Arson investigation Mgt Course / Course addresses serial bushfire arson in Australia. Final phase of course development / 18,400 / 18,000 / 36,400

2012/13 - NDRP & TWRASP Grant projects

Mitigation
OR Resilience / ORG / PROJECT / Description / $ Value
Cmwlth Recipient / $Total project cost
RESILIENCE / Women's legal Centre / ACT Emergency Legal Help / Development website. In the event of a disaster – ACT Emergency Legal Help / 40,000
RESILIENCE &
Mitigation / Green Cross Australia / ACT First / An online interactive portal built to encourage ACT citizens to become more self-reliant and resilient to natural disasters. / 240,000
MITIGATION / Green Cross Australia / ACTNow - Communications Campaign / Delivery of an interactive, awareness-raising communications campaign to promote the ACT Now web portal. / 30,000
Resilience / Lifeline Canberra / Psychological First Aid / Train Lifeline Staff to present the “Psychological First Aid” course. Staff will present the course to organisations/ind & be used in a disaster situation. / 100,000
Mitigation &
Resilience / Red Cross / REDiplan Project / Train a network of Community Preparedness Facilitators. Build the resilience of vulnerable groups to the impacts of emergencies. Identify local strengths and resources available for disaster resilience / 196,096
Mitigation &
Resilience / Southside Community Services / Personal Disaster Information Packs / Develop packages for individuals’ information to be recorded and updated, essential items to assist with the short-term comfort of the older residents. / 60,000
Mitigation / Rudy Van Drie / A Flood Mapping "Framework" for the ACT / High Resolution flood and hazard mapping of all catchments contributing to flows in the ACT, including Climate Change Impacts. / 60,000
Mitigation / Volunteering ACT / Building Resilience through Volunteers / Recruit, train and manage spontaneous volunteers. Increase community awareness and understanding of general preparedness to natural disasters, through the customisation of an online interactive disaster readiness tool. / 93,016
Mitigation &
Resilience / Outward Bound Australia / Community Bushfire Water Storage Asset / Create a static Water Supply of up to 3600L. Enabling the heavy tanker another reliable water point. / 9,750
Resilience / St Vincent De Paul / Disaster Response Volunteer Support Facility / Construct a support facility to house Disaster Response field deployment trailers, ancillary and training equipment, and to establish a co-located central Disaster Response volunteer training facility / 27,500
Resilience / St John Ambulance / Project Survival
RAA –National Award Winner / To encourage individual resilience by teaching Basic First Aid skills to the community through first aid training to school students & provision of life saving first aid skills to vulnerable people in the community. / 16,090
Mitigation / Equestrian Park
Management Group / Equestrian Park Fire Hazard Mitigation Project / Purchase of suitable equipment; Reduction of current fuel levels on the Park; and training of EPMG sponsored personnel. / 22,000
Mitigation / ACT Nudist Club / Emergency Exit Trail / Creation of an emergency exit fire trail / 4,800
Resilience / Canberra Rape Crisis Centre / Risk Aversion Planning / Telephone crisis service to assist community members who need trauma and crisis counselling during periods of natural disasters. / 28,000
Resilience / ESA / ACT Live TV Emergency Warning Broadcast Project / Provide ACT ESA with a permanent high quality fibre connection to ABC Canberra studios for the broadcast of live emergency warnings, advice and preparedness information / 90,057
Mitigation / ACT Flood Planning Committee / flood Study of selected Canberra Creek Systems / Undertake a study to ensure resilience to flash flooding and creek flooding in the Canberra area. / 250,000
Mitigation / ESA / Yellow Bird Alert Trial / Yellow Bird Alert is an Automatic Linking to Emergency Radio Transmissions system. This involves the construction of trial units, confirming the “wake up” function. / 120,000
Mitigation / TAMS / Ginninderra Creek Flooding and Dams Failure Assessment / Assessment of Probable Maximum Flood. Using recently determined extreme rainfall events and revised catchment details for Yerrabi, Gungahlin and Ginninderra Dams. / 100,000
Mitigation / ETD / Community Evacuation Centres - Testing of Emergency Generator / The project will test the readiness of Hawker, Narrabundah and Gungahlin Colleges as evacuation centres for the ACT community. / 20,000
Mitigation / ESA / Spatial Systems Development (COP) / Spatial integration of dynamic strategic (& tactical) level information for the purpose of
better situational awareness of decision makers. / 111,000
Mitigation / TAMS / Bushfire Mitigation and Preparedness / Decreasing the impact of unplanned wildfire posed to Territory assets by an increased fuel reduction program, and associated Fire Management works / 20,000
Mitigation / ESA / NSW & ACT Weather Forecast Viewer / To provide an online fire weather platform for Bureau of meteorology. / 25,000

In the 12/13 Grant Scheme there is no clarification of costs between Commonwealth and Local Government. This is partly due to the ACT paying costs in advance the year before & 12/13 projects not having to provide a matched or in-kind dollar amount.

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