Northern Rivers resilience: building dynamic preparedness at scale
The Northern Rivers region in Australia is susceptible to natural events, leading to continuous disasters and extreme events, affecting local communities.
In 2024 the ERT arrived at the Northern Rivers in order to provide support at scale and help prepare several community based organizations be equipped with relevant tools to build dynamic preparedness for future events..
In 4 weeks the ERT and monday.com volunteers helped 11 community based organizations to build tailored disaster coordination and response tools, allowing them to have flexible and scalable tools that can be adapted based on the dynamic needs of future disasters.
Floods: volunteer registration
During the 2022 flooding season in NSW, Australia, Lismore experienced one of the worst flood events seen in years.
The ERT joined Resilient Lismore, a local civil society organization, and rapidly created the digital infrastructure to provide community support.
The ERT created a scalable solution to register over 700 community volunteers and match them with thousands of requests for jobs that came in, including house rebuilding, rubbish removal, matching wellbeing needs and population mapping.
Following extreme wildfires, the ERT deployed to support local NGO UniãoBR with their disaster relief efforts.
The ERT attended the UNDRR Regional Platform in Uruguay. Global disaster response practitioners discussed the importance and impact of digital transformation of the aid sector, especially in the pivotal work of risk reduction and preparedness.
In 2024, Peru declared a 60 day state of emergency due to heavy rains, causing landslides and floods, damaging or destroying 2K+ houses and affecting ±40K people.