Mission & Vision
Mission
Serve as a trusted regional network to build professional skills, facilitate knowledge-exchange, advance equitable climate adaptation approaches, promote strategies for accelerating natural disaster recovery, and facilitate strong and diverse partnerships across professional sectors.
Vision
Communities across the U.S. Southeast and Caribbean will be significantly more resilient to episodic and chronic impacts due to climate change, natural hazards, and disasters.
Philosophy
SCDRP partners recognize that the scale of both episodic and chronic disasters and climate-related stressors faced throughout this region requires public and private entities to reach beyond their individual mandates and vested interests to work together to inform, protect, and transform vulnerable communities. The Partnership reflects a deep commitment to collaboration among multiple sectors to share experiences, enhance learning, and foster the use of best practices to strengthen the region’s ability to address common issues resulting from disasters and climate impacts. Each year, SCDRP engages hundreds of professionals in relationship-building to deepen communities’ resilience capacity through knowledge-sharing, interdisciplinary collaboration, and regional convenings.
SCDRP Core Values
The Partnership is guided by a set of foundational core values. These core values are ideals and principles which guide and inform the way SCDRP operates day-to-day, and provide the foundational beliefs that drive future directions and priorities of the Partnership.
Collaboration
Facilitate innovative partnerships that cross boundaries and disciplines.
Learning
Build capacity through knowledge-sharing, peer-learning, and convening.
Equity
Encourage diverse and inclusive participation in all activities across languages, cultures, and political boundaries.
Support
Facilitate access to and pragmatic application of science and actionable information in support of our Vision.
Strategic Plan
Serve the Partners
Provide opportunities for partners to engage, share knowledge, and collaborate on natural hazard resilience, equitable adaptation, and disaster preparedness, response, and recovery strategies.