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Resilience leadership refers to a formal leadership structure that coordinates and directs resilience efforts. How would you describe the level of resilience leadership in the community?
Efforts to build resilience should be proactive, forward thinking, agile, adaptative, and centered on the well-being of people. How organized do you think the resilience-building efforts are in the community?
Making decisions about resilience should be inclusive (engaging all relevant stakeholders), transparent (open and accessible to the public), and data-driven, taking into account both historical and forecasted data. How would you describe resilience decision-making in the community?
Collaboration across diverse sectors fosters collective action and shared investment. All community members, including those historically underserved, should be engaged. How would you rate the collaboration across all sectors of the community for resilience projects in the community?
A key aspect of building resilience is understanding the risks and vulnerabilities that a community faces. How well do you believe the community understands its risks and vulnerabilities?
Resilience goals should be clear, coordinated, and long-term to guide policy, plans, projects, and programs. How would you describe the resilience goals established by the community?
Resilience goals and principles should guide multi-objective efforts that deliver co-benefits and are fully integrated into budgeting and capital planning processes. How would you describe how integrated resilience solutions are in the community?
Systems thinking is often used to identify and implement solutions, including innovative and transformative solutions and financing models. How well does the community consider the interdependence of systems when they designed resilience solutions?
Efforts to measure resilience efforts should be robust and outcome-based. How would you describe the way the community measures its progress in resilience efforts?
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The Steps to Resilience framework outlines the collaborative process of team building, data gathering, and decision making that enables local climate champions and community members to improve their resilience to climate impacts while integrating with broader risk reduction and adaptation efforts.
Based on your engagement and discussions with the community, which step do you think best represents their current status?

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