Mission
Its mission is to enhance the safety and security of Canadians in their physical and cyber environment. It has two key mandates: to provide national leadership in a new, modern and comprehensive approach to protecting Canada’s critical infrastructure the key physical and cyber components of the energy and utilities, communications, services, transportation, safety and government sectors, to be the government’s primary agent for ensuring national civil emergency preparedness for all types of emergencies.
The Canada's National Disaster Mitigation Strategy is based on the recognition by federal, provincial, and territorial governments that mitigation is an important part of a robust emergency management framework, and that all stakeholders are committed to working together to support disaster mitigation in Canada.
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.