responsible humans: identifying community leadership
DESCRIPTION
This is a presentation made by Jarrod Coburn, CEO of the New Zealand Resilience Trust, to the World Conference on Disaster Management held in Toronto Canada in June 2009.TRANSCRIPT
1.Unique social experiment that develops truly sustainable community resilience.
2.Tools that assist in motivating communities to become self-aware and responsible
3.An insight into disaster preparedness from a community development perspective
1 INTRODUCTION
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
Jarrod Coburn
• CEO and co-founder of NZRT
• Volunteer Sector
• Community Organisations
• Local Government
• Paramedic (BLS)
• Civil Defence
• Victoria University of Wellington
1 INTRODUCTION
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
“Sometimes it does us a power of good to remind ourselves that we live on two volcanic rocks where two tectonic plates meet, in a somewhat lonely stretch of windswept ocean just above the Roaring Forties…
…if you want dramayou’ve come to theright place.” Sir Geoffrey Palmer, former NZ Prime Minister
Resilience
• Norris et al. (2008)
• Opposite of “Vulnerability”
• Reaction to adversity
• Emergent property
• Four attributes:
Social Capital
Skills & Competence
Equity
Information Flow
1 Introduction
2 WHAT IS RESILIENCE?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
EquityInformation
Flow
SocialCapital
Skills &Competence
CommunityResilience
CommunityVulnerability
1 Introduction
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ RESILIENCE TRUST
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
New Zealand Resilience Trust
• Third sector
• “Charitable Trust” status
• Umbrella organization
• Buffer
• Ambulance service
• National projects
Research
Councilwatch.org.nz
Residents.org.nz
Planning contradicts faith
• Risk adversity
• “How bad could it be?”
• Effectiveness of plan
• Self-determination
• Self-awareness
• The basics:
Attitude
Ability
Faith
1 Introduction
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 PLAN VS. FAITH
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
Motivation is a key skill
• Epidemic of unpreparedness
• Social marketing $$$
• Excuses
• Fear
• Truth and honesty
• Know-how to solve problem
• Community education
• NZ Resilience Corps
• Training
1 Introduction
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 MOTIVATING OTHERS
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
Leadership
• Self-reliance
• Weak Links
Natural born networkers
Familiar faces
Source of intelligence
• Keystones
Natural born leaders
Driven & passionate
Vox populus
• Listen, listen, listen!
1 Introduction
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 IDENTIFYING LEADERS
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
Building sustainable resilience
• Organisation-based
• “Perpetuity”
• 100% community owned
• Give away power
• Self-funding
• Many and often
• Distributive network
• Intra-networking
• Share common resources
1 Introduction
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 SUSTAINABILITY
8 Problems…
9 Tools for You
ResearchEducationTraining
Local ProjectsNetworking
Increases Social CapitalIncreases Social Capital
Improves CompetenceImproves Competence
Boosts Information SharingBoosts Information Sharing
Problems…
• Community engagement
• Bureaucracy
• Politics
• Financial cost
…and solutions
• Slow down!
• Indirect support
• Community ownership
• Are you kidding?!
1 Introduction
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 PROBLEMS…
9 Tools for You
Tools
#1 The shiny new shovel
#2 The trusty “Humble Pie”-maker
#3 Industrial-strength hearing aids
#4 Change of old clothing
#5 Brush and dustbin
1 Introduction
2 What is Resilience?
3 NZ Resilience Trust
4 Plan vs. Faith
5 Motivating Others
6 Identifying Leaders
7 Sustainability
8 Problems…
9 TOOLS FOR YOU
Conclusion
Self-managing communities
Leadership from within
Resources already exist
Inform and equip