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Actions and Effort - Embed the resilience approach

*Progress rating is an indictaive qualitative assessment, these wil be further refined through data analysis, stakeholder and community consultation.

Strategic priority: Update and develop strategies
Responsibility
RCS Actions	Effort	Progress*	Case Studies
Review and update existing strategic documents and sub-strategies and create new ones according to need.	Monitor and record effectiveness of plan implementation (WS)		The Goulburn Broken CMA Biodiversity Strategy (finalised October 2016)
Strategic priority: Plan at social-ecological system scale
Responsibility
RCS Actions	Effort	Progress*	Case Studies
Develop an adaptive planning process for social-ecological systems to build and enhance their resilience	Plan for disasters, education need that it may be a “When” not “if” scenario (WS)		All municipalities have Municipal Emergency Management Plans, you can access these via the relevant web links. Strathbogie Shire [1], Benalla Rural City [2] and Mitchell Shire [3] not all shires have these plans on their websites. DELWP is working with the Strathbogie Ranges community and agencies (including GB CMA) to develop a fire plan under the 'safer together' policy (pilot region). Each municipaliy has a Municipal Emergency Resource Officer or Recovery Manager that is the main contact for emergencies in their shires. Resources and monitoring is carried out under the AIIMS structur [4]e which directs people to services required.
	Resourcing and monitoring needed
Strategic priority: Provide adaptive management and leadership
Responsibiltiy
RCS Actions	Effort	Progress*	Case Studies
Build community and agency capacity to respond together to drivers of change	Identify successful land management mentors and ask them to share knowledge (WS)		An education day was run in conjunction with Taungurung Clans to increase school childrens knowledge of art, culture and music. [5] Yorta Yorta Nation Aboriginal Corporation has recorded stories of tradional uses of Country. [6]
Research resilience knowledge gaps to inform decision making based on thresholds and tipping points	Undertake adaptive management		Seven demonstration sites [7] are been conducted as part of the SoilCare Program.
			Case studies are available on the GB CMA website [8]