Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub

The Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub (the 'Knowledge Hub') is a national, open-source platform that supports and informs policy, planning, decision making and contemporary good practice in disaster resilience. The Knowledge Hub highlights current and emerging themes in the resilience sector, linking national guidelines with research and fostering collaboration among leading agencies and organisations. The Knowledge Hub also houses information on historical Australian disasters.

The Knowledge Hub is managed by the Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience on behalf of the Australian Government, and replaces the Emergency Management Knowledge Hub.

The Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience

The Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience (AIDR) is the National Institute for disaster risk reduction and resilience. We collaborate across sectors to strengthen the resilience of Australian communities to disasters.

AIDR creates, grows, and supports a range of networks; provides opportunities for learning, development, and innovation; shares knowledge and resources to enable informed decision making and action; and facilitates thought leadership through national conversations.

AIDR contributes to a more disaster resilient Australia through four key influencing strategies that encapsulate AIDR’s work: 

• Actively supporting, growing and sustaining a range of networks across sectors and jurisdictions
• Enabling those with a role in disaster risk reduction and resilience to come together
  to learn, develop and innovate
• Collecting, developing, curating and sharing knowledge to educate and promote good practice in disaster risk reduction and resilience
• Providing a central focus point for national thought leadership on disaster risk reduction and resilience.

AIDR is a managed by AFAC on behalf of the National Emergency Management Agency. AIDR delivers a range of products and services on behalf of the Commonwealth Government, as well as State and Territory agencies, to support a disaster resilient Australia

National Strategy for Disaster Resilience

Australia's National Strategy for Disaster Resilience (NSDR) was released in February 2011. This strategy acknowledges the increasing severity and regularity of natural disasters in Australia and the need for a coordinated and cooperative national effort to enhance Australia's capacity to withstand and recover from emergencies and disasters.

Disaster resilience is described in the NSDR as the collective responsibility of all levels of government, business, the non-government sector and individuals. Where these sectors work together with a united focus and a shared sense of responsibility to improve disaster resilience, they will be far more effective than the individual efforts of any one sector.