The Regional Drought Resilience Planning program is designed to enable small consortiums of local governments (and their communities) to better prepare for, respond to and recover from drought.

Regional NSW has identified three priority regions using agricultural employment as a proxy for the vulnerability of local economies to drought, alongside other relevant criteria such as water security and alignment of related initiatives under the Future Ready Regions Strategy. Each region contains two Local Government Areas, with Tamworth Regional Council and Walcha Council making up this piece of work.

Drought Resilience Plans will focus on the role of local government in building drought resilience and will be developed from the perspective that drought is a regional development issue; i.e., community level drought resilience depends upon strong primary industries and agricultural supply chains sectors as well as other businesses, community organisations and local government.

Tamworth Regional Council is seeking submissions from suitably qualified consultants for the development of a Regional Drought Resilience Plan. Drought Resilience Plans will be co-designed with local stakeholders to ensure that plans are relevant and actionable for communities.