Central West People Led Prevention Project Complete
Central West People Led Prevention Project Complete
The Central West Landcare Region delivered seven workshops to 300 people during the first half of 2024
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The issue
The Central West of NSW has faced many challenges with Natural Disasters in the past few years including drought, fire, flood and other events that have impacted severely on our communities.
The unpredictability and frequency of these events has brought its own challenges and investing time in preparedness education was flagged as a priority.
The need for increased awareness raising and options for mitigation and even prevention of natural disasters to reduce impacts on people, properties businesses and livestock has been highlighted and options for delivery of relevant and current information was sought.
The solution
Three workshops were held with Graham Ross AM in Dunedoo, Grenfell and Forbes. Graham certainly was a crowd puller. It was wonderful to hear about his passion for horticulture and gardening and about the work that he has done to ensure that the industry progresses in a positive way so that we are bringing through young people into the horticultural industry.
We were also fortunate to have several other amazing presenters including ecologist Alison Elvin speaking on resilient landscape development in Condobolin and Parkes, landscape designer Sally Bourne who spoke about creating gardens that are considerate of a natural environmental balance at Homegrown Parkes and self-supporting, agricultural business consultant Dr David Brown spoke at Grenfell on risk management and planning, architect and interior designer Sally Sutherland spoke on building and landscape design to combat the extremes of heat, cold, fire and flood, in addition to the amazing volunteers from RFS and SES who brought a focus to disaster preparation and management.
The impact
These workshops were all provided for free, engaged nearly 300 people and increased awareness of the options for preparing properties, people and animals for natural disasters.
Landcare NSW’s People Led Prevention project empowers communities across regional NSW in developing disaster resilience and preparedness skills. The Disaster Risk Reduction Fund is jointly funded by the Australian and NSW Governments.
The People Led Prevention project focused on behaviour change for natural hazard risk reduction.
Key facts
- 300 people attended seven events across the Central West in Dunedoo, Condobolin, Parkes, Forbes and Grenfell.
- These events all engaged our local emergency service providers to deliver crucial preparedness information to attendees.
- Landcare NSW's People Led Prevention project empowers communities across regional NSW in developing disaster resilience and preparedness skills. The Disaster Risk Reduction Fund is jointly funded by the Australian and NSW Governments.