About the Resilience Challenge
We are building new knowledge and tools to contribute to greater resilience in our unique rural, urban, coastal and Māori communities to natural hazards including earthquakes/tsunamis, volcanoes, weather and coastal hazards.
Our mission
We work with stakeholders to generate new co-created research that communities, organisations and agencies can use to improve New Zealand’s natural hazard resilience.
Our vision
New Zealand has mainstreamed natural hazard risk management and resilience into daily practice, underpinned by new knowledge and tools which enable significant societal change
Our pathway
- Open, inclusive and good governance that inspires others to take up the Resilience to Nature’s Challenges strategy
- Sourcing the best capability to pursue our research goals
- Undertaking bold, transformative research that unlocks the innovation potential behind collaboration and transdisciplinary research, including mātauranga Māori
- Engaging in co-creation to develop enduring and meaningful partnerships with stakeholders, resulting in research that is useful, usable and used.
Our aspirations
- The Resilience Challenge becomes a trusted provider of research and advice to Aotearoa, including Māori
- The Challenge delivers internationally linked and leading research
- Our research results contribute to New Zealand achieving transformational change in its resilience to natural hazards, evident in economic, social, infrastructure and cultural outcomes
- We become an exemplar for the co-creation of science with New Zealanders, including Māori, for the benefit of Aotearoa