Fire to Flourish: Lessons Learned in its Implementation

As bushfires, floods and other disasters strike Australia with increasing frequency and intensity, there is a growing need for new and better ways to protect people and property, support recovery, and build long-term resilience. Yet the systems designed to support communities through disaster recovery and resilience building too often overlook the people who know their communities best. Fire to Flourish was established to test a different way of working — and over five years, it generated hard-won knowledge about what that different way of working actually requires.