The Batlow Preparedness Plan is a Resilient Towns Initiative driving a locally-led approach towards making Batlow in the Snowy Valleys LGA a safer community in the event of a future disaster. With the benefit of national and internal resilience expertise, the plan is a two-year project that supports Council and surrounding local communities in the Snowy Valleys towards strengthening resilient towns. The project is funded by the NSW Government.

The Bywong and Wamboin Building Community Resilience program is about better connections between people and local neighbourhoods in Bywong and Wamboin. These connections create a foundation for
local safety, sharing local knowledge and help when needed, to ensure living a rural residential life can be a rewarding and sustaining experience in uncertain times. The program builds on two existing initiativesthe Community Firewise Groups and the public walks program on the Greenways. To support those two initiatives, a community leadership program will help volunteers who may want to lead public walks, offer
to be a Firewise convener or to step up in other ways to assist the community.

The Southern NSW Drought Resilience Adoption and Innovation Hub is a consortium of nine regional partners including primary producers, Indigenous, industry and community groups, researchers, entrepreneurs, education institutions, resource management practitioners and government agencies.  Housed at Charles Sturt University AgriPark in Wagga Wagga, the hub focuses on combating drought through user-driven innovation, research and adoption to facilitate transformational change in drought resilience across Southern NSW.

The ‘Regenerate Capital Region’ is a leadership development program in response to the 2019-20 bushfire season. Its objective is to build a network of trusted contacts across geographical boundaries and agencies to better respond to future fire emergencies. It aligns with the National Strategy for Disaster Resilience’s focus on achieving community resilience through collective and shared responsibility and empowering individuals and communities to create change, and is delivered by the Australian Rural Leadership Foundation.

Yass Habitat Linkages is a 10 year project funded by the NSW Environmental Trust through a partnership between the Yass Area Network of Landcare Groups, Greening Australia, the Australian River Restoration Centre, Land for Wildlife, Local Land Services and Yass Valley Council. The project focuses on restoring wildlife habitat and vegetation across a valued productive agricultural landscape. The project enables
landholders to enhance biodiversity and improve sustainable farming in the Yass region by helping to create corridors of native vegetation across the landscape, with over 53 landholders participating.