The Resilient Sydney Strategy
2025-2030
The Resilient Sydney Strategy was developed following extensive engagement of 2000 pp and 2000 orgs, alongside a region-wide risk assessment. What we heard from Sydney communities and technical stakeholders are captured in key reports.
Strategy Documents
Resilient Sydney’s Strategy and supporting documents outline regional risks, community insights, resilience priorities, strategies, and implementation actions.
Resilient Sydney Strategy 2025-2030
The Resilient Sydney Strategy was developed through extensive engagement with more than 2,000 people and 200 organisations, alongside a region-wide risk assessment. Insights from Sydney communities and technical stakeholders have been captured in a series of key reports.
Youth Engagement Report 2024
Youth Engagement Report 2024
Being open-minded with fresh perspectives and creativity, young people said it was vital to capture their perspectives. Their standing as “intergenerational burden bearers” who will inherit the consequences of today’s decisions, made their consultation important.
Synthesis Report 2024
Synthesis Report 2024
This report presents the key outcomes of the community engagement and risk assessment and describes how the synthesis of this information provides the evidence base to develop action areas for the Resilient Sydney Strategy 2025 to 2030.
Engagement Report 2024
Engagement Report 2024
This compilation report provides the key findings from engagement activities to inform the Resilient Sydney strategy 2025–2030. The outcomes of engagement were incorporated throughout the strategy development process.
Five directions
Each action in this strategy addresses multiple shocks and stresses.The actions are spread across the 4 dimensions of the city resilience framework. Resilience principles have been applied to each action to ensure they:
- Address multiple shocks and stresses
- Build relationships and resilient behaviours for ongoing impact
- Appreciate the critical roles played by different levels of government, the community and business
- Can be scaled up for regional outcomes or modified to suit the local conditions.
Direction 1
Care for the environment
Focuses on how we reframe our relationship with the natural environment to value and protect it and use resources sustainably.
Direction 2
People-centred city
Considers how we make this place safe and equitable, now and in the future, for all the people who live here.
Direction 3
Connect for strength
Proposes actions to build strong social connections and communities where we care for each other.
Direction 4
Be ready
Responds to the urgency for us to be collectively prepared for shock events by harnessing stronger relationships and empowering communities.
Direction 5
One city
Addresses the governance challenges facing Sydney in a way that enables the goals of directions 1, 2, 3 and 4 to be realised.
our approach
Developing the Strategy
Four main drivers of change are now shaping human societies: globalisation, urbanisation, climate change and digitalisation.
The city resilience framework is ana internationality recognised way to understand how cities are changing and how we can strengthen their resilience.
- Health and wellbeing: the health and wellbeing of everyone living and working in the city.
- Natural and built environments: the quality of the ecosystems and built infrastructure connecting and supporting the city.
- Economy and society: the systems within the society an economy that enable urban population to live peacefully and sustainably.
- Governance and planning: appropriate leadership, governance and strategy enabling the city to learn from the past and take timely action.
The strategy is based on extensive research and
engagement across four phases to:
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Build the evidence base including propriety shocks and stresses for Greater Sydney
2
Test the shocks and stresses and identify resilience challenges
3
Explore action areas to address these resilience challenges
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