2021 – 2022
Funded by the Greater Melbourne Foundation.
The project
This project worked with community health and service organisations to strengthen climate resilience – focusing on services in Melbourne’s west, on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, Boon Wurrung, and Wathaurong country.
The Centre delivered this project in partnership with organisations supporting health and wellbeing in the local government areas of Maribyrnong, Brimbank, Melton, Wyndham and Hobson’s Bay. Partners include IPC Health, GenWest, Network West, VCOSS, Brimbank City Council, Melton City Council and Wyndham City Council, with stakeholder input from Hobsons Bay City Council and the Victorian Department of Health.
The impact
This project was a first step towards shared action to build climate resilience in Melbourne’s west by supporting community health and community service organisations (and other organisations which support health and wellbeing in Melbourne’s west), to increase their understanding of:
- Key health, service and climate change networks
- Shared climate change risks, vulnerabilities, strengths and needs.
This work helped identify shared priorities and opportunities to collaborate and mobilise climate justice (fairer outcomes as our climate continues to change) and community resilience in Melbourne’s west. As result of this year-long project, the Centre developed a Collaborative Action Plan, which articulates a shared vision for climate justice in Melbourne’s west.