Te Manawaroa Hapori i te Waipuke Community Flood Resilience

One of the most effective ways to strengthen Auckland’s flood resilience is to work with our communities.

Our Community Flood Resilience initiative is a part of the Making Space for Water programme. It supports communities to:

• understand flood risks
• improve safety
• reduce property damage.

We work with organisations and local groups with strong community connections and local knowledge to strengthen long-term resilience against flooding.

We ran a pilot programme to explore and improve community-led ways to be flood resilient. The programme was from September 2023 to December 2024. During the programme we:

• partnered with 11 organisations to boost community leadership
• engaged with 1424 volunteers in resilience activities, such as clearing blocked streams
• held 72 community events to raise flood awareness and improve stormwater management
• planted 2512 native plants in key areas to absorb water and reduce erosion.

For more information, check Community Flood Resilience Highlights:

Te Kawerau ā Maki is our mana whenua partner in West Auckland. They will help guide local community-led resilience efforts based on tikanga Māori values.

Our partners help communities become safer and more resilient by:

• holding workshops and events to improve flood knowledge
• spreading awareness on the importance of stormwater catchment An area of land where rainwater, streams and rivers flow into a single body of water, like a river, lake or reservoir. areas
• expanding stream restoration efforts
• supporting stormwater management.

Our community partners work in different Auckland areas.