Developing a Community Led Resilience plan Work has begun to gather the concerns, experiences and ideas of residents of the Mangrove Mountain and Districts community with the aim of developing a community led resilience and disaster preparation and response plan. The Red Cross notes “Recent global trends within emergency management have seen a shift towards a sharing of responsibility between various levels of government, emergency agencies, community services and communities themselves. With disasters being more widespread and intense, and official resources limited, emergency agencies have neither the capacity nor the volunteer base to support all affected communities during an event,…