It is important to continue communicating and engaging with your communities throughout the delivery and implementation process. The community recovery process is an iterative and long-term process. Refer to the engagement method in Step 2: Set community recovery priorities of this toolkit for a range of engagement methods and online tools to support community engagement.
- Maintain clear and regular communication with the community, councils and key stakeholders.
- Provide as much forward advice of community engagement deadlines and avoid being rushed to make decisions.
- Try to stage community engagement with options that mean if people miss an initial deadline, they are not excluded from the whole process.
- Lobby government agencies and advocate for the community for realistic timeframes that match the ability of the community and your community recovery group (CRG) to make decisions and meet deadlines.
- Work with neighbouring communities and CRGs to share knowledge and learning from your recovery journeys.
Ongoing checklist
The following checklist can be a guide for CRGs as your communities work on implementing the goals and priorities outlined in your community recovery plan.
- Conduct regular CRG meetings to provide status update of key activities, risks and issues.
- Communicate planned actions to your communities, recovery management teams and key stakeholders.
- Conduct review of short and medium-term activities. Are priority needs being met? Were any priorities missed in immediate and short-term assessment or have new ones emerged?
- Continue the needs assessment process to inform planning, support and service provision.
- Advocate on behalf of affected communities to government and authorities for support.
- Continue to engage and empower affected communities and interest groups.
- Keep pace with the evolving recovery situation and adapt the community recovery plan in accordance with evolving or changing community needs and priorities.
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