Building blocks of rural community resilience. Rural People; Resilient Futures Pilot Project Final Report

This report tells the story of the Rural People; Resilient Futures (RP;RF moving forward) pilot project, which has developed and tested a model for engaging rural community service organisations in planning for the impacts of climate change and increasing community resilience. The report focuses on the process employed through the RP;RF project, recommendations for similar agencies to adopt, and steps moving forward. The report does so by describing:  Understanding social vulnerability in context (Section 2.1);  A model for community service organisation engagement using the SGGPCP platform (Section 2.5 and Section 3.5);  Activities and engagement methods employed throughout the pilot project (Section 4);  Benefits of employing this approach (Section 3); and  Recommendations to continue the success of this pilot (Section 0).