Assessment questions
All categories, excluding photography
Criteria 1: Executive Summary and overview
Provide an overview of the project or initiative and its benefits. Consider the following when developing your
response:
- How would you pitch your project to media outlets?
- How would you summarise your project for social media posts?
- Will your executive summary spark interest from the judging panel?
- Aim to inspire interest from across the emergency management/resilience sector and the general public.
Word limit: 150 Animation/Video length: 30 seconds
Criteria 2: Purpose, design and aim
Provide information on how the project or initiative was designed, including the target audience. Explain how the project or initiative was developed, its intended purpose, particular characteristics and features, and who was involved. Consider the following questions in developing your response:
- What is the purpose of the project?
- Who is involved in the project? Who benefits?
- What factors or considerations influenced the design of this project?
- Does the project make use of technology? Was this beneficial to the outcome?
Word limit: 500 Animation/Video length: 2 minutes
Criteria 3: Examples of resilience building, sustainability and transferability
Provide specific examples of how the project or initiative has supported resilience building so that the community is better able to prepare for, respond to and/or recovery from disasters and emergencies. Outline how the project or initiative is sustainable into the future, and how it can be transferred to other communities, or to address other hazards. Consider the following questions in developing your response:
- What have the changes in the community been as a result of your project?
- What evidence can you provide?
- How are you ensuring that this project is sustained over time?
- How has the community been directly engaged through the project?
- Could other communities use your project as a model?
- What advice would you give other communities based on your experience through this project?
Word limit: 500 Animation/Video length: 2 minutes
Criteria 4: Findings and achievements
Provide information on the achievements of the project or initiative, and how it promotes and encourages shared responsibility. Include examples of how the project or initiative reflects the key ideas in the National Strategy for Disaster Resilience, and how the community has responded. Consider the following questions in developing your response:
- What are the achievements and outcomes of the project?
- How did the project promote or encourage sharing the responsibility for disaster resilience/community
safety among multiple sectors/groups?
- Has the project been evaluated, including informal evaluations? How has the community been directly
engaged through the project?
Word limit: 500 Animation/Video length: 2 minutes
Criteria 5: Diversity and inclusion
Provide specific examples of how the project or initiative engages with and provides benefit to diverse groups within the local community or more broadly. How is the project or initiative fostering inclusive approaches to disaster resilience? Consider the following questions when developing your response:
- How does your project represent or include First Nations people, women, youth, LGBTIQA+, those from
culturally and linguistically diverse communities, and other underrepresented groups within the community?
- How does your project include those from high and low socio-economic groups in the community, and those
from urban, rural or neighbouring locations?
- How does your project highlight the needs, voices, and achievements of the estimated 1 in 5 Australians
with a disability?
- How does your project take into consideration the mental wellbeing of the community before, during and
after a disaster?
Word limit: 500 Animation/Video length: 2 minutes
Criteria 6: Beyond business as usual
Provide specific examples of how your project or initiative delivers above and beyond the core business activity of the organisations involved. How is your project or initiative different than other similar projects currently being delivered across Australia? Consider the following questions when developing your response:
- What gaps in community expectations and needs does the project address?
- Why is the project different from anything delivered previously, or as part of the core business of those
involved?
- How does your project inspire the creation of a new ‘business as usual’?
Word limit: 500 Animation/Video length: 2 minutes
Photography category
What about the submitted photograph demonstrates resilience to you?
Submissions must include:
- One high-resolution (300dpi) photograph that demonstrates what resilience means to you, or resilience in action
- The title of the photograph and the location it was taken
- Names and contact details for all identifiable individuals depicted in the photograph to comply with the Privacy Act 1988.
