The FAIR (Flood: Aware, Informed, Resilient) Approach to Community Flood Risk project, is working innovatively and collaboratively to reduce community flood risk and improve resilience across Staffordshire and the Black Country.
Through effective community engagement and enabling partnerships between communities and Risk Management Authorities (RMAs), the FAIR project is empowering communities with the skills, knowledge, and resources to actively participate in risk management and resilience activities.
This participatory approach enables communities and RMAs to work in partnership to co-design and inform decision-making for interventions to improve resilience to flooding (for instance, to reduce damage and disruption and speed up recovery). Within this, we are employing innovative and state-of-the-art physical and digital infrastructure, alongside flood risk interventions, to embed and encourage long-term community engagement and resilience in communities across Staffordshire and the Black Country.
The FAIR project is one of 25 projects funded by DEFRA as part of the Flood and Coastal Resilience Innovation Project (FCRIP) managed by the Environment Agency to demonstrate how practical innovative actions can improve resilience to flooding and coastal erosion in a changing climate.
