Emergency Recovery Victoria
Emergency Recovery Victoria (ERV) is a permanent and dedicated relief and recovery agency focused on building stronger and more resilient individuals, communities, and regions through community‐led recovery.
ERV is responsible for recovery coordination at the state and regional tier, and relief coordination at the state tier, partnering with all levels of government, businesses and not for profit organisations to enable locally driven and locally delivered recovery outcomes.
Mitigation
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Lead and coordinate state relief, and state and regional recovery planning across ERV’s five lines of recovery (people and wellbeing, Aboriginal culture and healing, environment and biodiversity, business and economy, and building and infrastructure), ensuring that emergency management plans appropriately encompass relief and recovery considerations that: |
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1.1, 1.2 |
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1.1, 6.6 |
Coordinate state relief, and state and regional recovery, including: |
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1.1 |
Response (including Relief)
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Coordinate state relief, including:
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Support the EMC to coordinate data collection and impact assessment processes for secondary impact assessments |
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Relief Coordinating Agency (RelCA):
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Table 11: Specified relief activities and relief coordinating agency (RelCA) |
Support state and regional transition from response to recovery | 1.1, 4.4, 4.5 |
Recovery
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Coordinate state and regional recovery, including: |
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15.4, 20.3 |
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2.3, 2.5 |
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Tables 13-18: Recovery coordination |
Recovery coordinator for state and regional tiers, including the delivery of recovery programs and services (including community services) |
3.1 |
Recovery Lead Agency (RecLA) across the recovery environments at the state and regional tiers including:
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Table 14: Recovery coordination: For Services across all environments |
Recovery Lead Agency (RecLA) to:
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Table 15: Recovery coordination: Social environment |
Recovery Lead Agency (RecLA) to:
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Table 16: Recovery coordination: Economic environment |
Recovery Lead Agency (RecLA) to:
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Table 17: Recovery coordination: Built environment |
Recovery Support Agency (RecSA) to Councils to:
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Table 14: Recovery coordination: For Services across all environments |
Advise Cabinet, relevant Committees of Cabinet and the SCRC and on strategic matters relating to relief and recovery | 4.5, 4.6 |
As directed by government, deliver recovery programs and services (including community services) where:
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19.5 |
Support the design and/or administration of recovery grants in coordination with the Commonwealth Government, recovery agencies and Councils, as required | 15.4, 20.3 |
Assurance and Learning
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Oversee whole of government recovery progress towards recovery outcomes |
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Lead and support real-time monitoring, event debriefing and review of relief and recovery coordination |
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Establish and maintain contemporary state and regional recovery policies, doctrine, guidelines, frameworks and programs, built on monitoring, insights and evaluation learnings captured from previous major emergencies, exercises and good practice case studies | 21.1, 21.2 |
Provide assurance to government that recovery needs are being met | 21.4 |
Footnote
1 The coordination of spontaneous volunteers may also occur during the response (including relief) phase of an incident
2 ‘Strategic’ relates to the broad strategy for spontaneous volunteers and not the management of spontaneous volunteers in response to an event