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Resources and publications
Explore our publications and read more about our innovative research at the intersections of bushfire recovery, disaster resilience and community development.
2025 Annual Report
Fire to Flourish’s fifth and final Annual Report 2025 is now available, highlighting a year of impact, evidence and legacy and concluding an extraordinary journey of discovery in community-led disaster resilience.
2025 Impact Report
Fire to Flourish's final Impact Report 2021–2025, an independent survey-based evaluation of our 5-year program's community impact.
Fire to Flourish: Lessons Learned in its Implementation
This lessons learned report distils five hard‑won lessons for transformative, community‑led disaster resilience, grounded in partner communities’ lived experience.
Key Capabilities for Community Disaster Resilience: Insights and Practice
This report provides a structured framework for identifying and strengthening community capabilities related to disaster resilience, developed by disaster resilience experts at Fire to Flourish.
Community-Led Planning and Collaboration for Resilience: A Practice Guide
This Practice Guide provides a step-by-step walkthrough of the phases of the Fire to Flourish community-led resilience planning process.
DisasterWISE – National Learning Network Project
The final report from the DisasterWISE National Learning Project, featuring summaries of monthly sessions: stories, insights, resources and shared wisdom from communities leading the way towards climate adaptation and disaster preparedness and recovery.
Climate Disaster Resilience in Fire and Flood Affected Communities
This report presents evidence-based insights into local bushfire and flood resilience, and pilots the use of a holistic, systems-based tool developed by Fire to Flourish researchers to assess community bushfire resilience.
Community-Based Disaster Learning Review: Practice Guide
The Practice Guide provides a step-by-step pathway for conducting community post-disaster reviews that amplify community voices and priorities after a disaster.
A Community-Centred Disaster Learning Review of the 2023 Bushfires in Tenterfield, NSW
This report presents the process and findings of the Tenterfield Bushfire Learning Review, including the community-developed strategic priorities for future disaster resilience in Tenterfield, and the community-led projects that were subsequently funded to strengthen disaster resilience.
2024 Annual Report
Fire to Flourish’s 2024 Annual Report is now available, highlighting a year of action, growth and impact. This was our most impactful to date, as we continue to co-create and test new solutions for community-led disaster resilience.
Fire to Flourish: Lessons Learned in its Activation
Fire to Flourish: Lessons Learned in its Activation presents five key lessons and insights from the first three years of the program.
Lessons Learned in its Activation - Summary Report
The Lessons Learned in its Activation - Summary Report is a reduced version of Fire to Flourish: Lessons Learned in its Activation report, now available to download.
2023 Impact Report - Summary Version
The 2023 Impact Report - Summary Version is a reduced version of the 2023 Impact Report, now available to download.
2023 Impact Report
The 2023 Impact Report is the most tangible demonstration of Fire to Flourish’s impact to date.
2023 Annual Report
Fire to Flourish’s 2023 Annual Report is now available, highlighting a vibrant year of growth and activation.
Independent Review of the Cobargo Community Bushfire Recovery Fund
This report documents and shares the story of the Cobargo Community Bushfire Recovery Fund, to reflect on its experience, celebrate its achievements, and to offer the lessons learned to other communities preparing for, or recovering from disasters.
An Agenda for Change
F2F’s inaugural research report calls for a transformative resilience approach to disaster management.
National Survey: Out of the Ashes
An F2F national survey revealed community resilience grows significantly after disaster. Read the full report here.
Now-Future-How: Insights from testing a holistic model for community-led approaches to disaster resilience
This report presents the methods, lessons and opportunities of the Now-Future-How model to support disaster-affected communities.
Transformative Actions
This report proposes six transformative actions for harnessing the under-utilised resources of community knowledge, skills and lived experience.
Factsheet: Working with Indigenous Peoples and Communities
This fact sheet provides information to guide the design and delivery of projects to ensure they promote self-determination, are community-led and respect cultural protocols.
Grant Writing Toolkit
The Grant Writing Toolkit is a resource available for community grant applicants and groups who need support in securing grants.
Community Health and Wellbeing Survey: now closed
In 2025, Monash University led a ground-breaking study to understand how the 2019-20 bushfires affected the health and wellbeing of residents in Eurobodalla, Tenterfield, Clarence Valley and East Gippsland. This survey, which is now closed with results available in late 2025, is the first population-wide post-disaster health survey conducted in Australia.