Mission
Leading New Zealand in reducing risk, being ready for, responding to, and recovering from emergencies
- Increasing community awareness, understanding, preparedness and participation in civil defence emergency management.
- Reducing the risks from hazards to New Zealand.
- Enhancing New Zealand's capability to manage civil defence emergencies.
- Enhancing New Zealand's capability to recover from civil defence emergencies.
- Monitor and evaluate the Government’s National Civil Defence Emergency Management Strategy.
- Develop, monitor & evaluate the National Civil Defence Emergency Plan.
- Monitor local government and national agencies with responsibilities for civil defence emergency management
- Develop, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, any national guidelines, codes, or technical standards for civil defence emergency management.
- Promote and advise on civil defence emergency management to the public, central and local government and other relevant agencies.
- Identify hazards and risks of national significance and, in a state of national emergency, direct and control its management.
Voluntary Commitments
The Sendai Framework Voluntary Commitments (SFVC) online platform allows stakeholders to inform the public about their work on DRR. The SFVC online platform is a useful toolto know who is doing what and where for the implementation of the Sendai Framework, which could foster potential collaboration among stakeholders. All stakeholders (private sector, civil society organizations, academia, media, local governments, etc.) working on DRR can submit their commitments and report on their progress and deliverables.