We would like to warmly invite you to this space to discuss the development of the Tool to Assess Effective Resilience (TAER). Since the last webinar in August, we have conducted interviews and a focus group with stakeholders and project partners, and a draft of the tool is developed based on the findings and recommendations. In this webinar, we would like to show you the draft version of this tool, and invite you to give us your feedback.

In the last webinar, we presented key findings from the SME flood resilience survey which aimed to 1) identify the information you need about SMEs, and 2) explore a tool to assess effective flood resilience measures of SMEs. We have been mining our datasets and analysing your suggestions and in the last webinar, we also presented you with the results.

Draft webinar agenda:

13:00 - 13:10 Introduction to the agenda and objectives of the webinar

13:10 - 13:20 Presentation on the data collection process for the tool development, and an overview of the tool

13:20 - 13:40 Part 1: Data collection function and Q&A

13:40 - 14:00 Part 2: Data reporting and database function and Q&A

14:00 - 14:20 Part 3 - SMEs engagement and tool distribution and Q&A

14:20 - 14:30 Next steps and closure

You can read more on our webpage or watch a short video where we talk about our project. You can also read the background of this research here.

Our team and our collaborators

This project is led by Dr. Paola Sakai in partnership with the University of York, University of Leeds, the Environment Agency, West Yorkshire Combined Authority and Leeds City Region Enterprise Partnership, UKRI, Defra’s task force-2, Upper Calder Valley Renaissance, and the Yorkshire Integrated Catchment Solutions Programme (iCASP) as the main financing partner of this initiative.