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Resilience Fund to support the final stages of Taranaki Emergency Management’s Needs Assessment Tool
Taranaki Emergency Management is one of eight successful recipients of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Resilience Fund grant this year.
Resilience Fund awards harness community expertise
Grass-roots projects to help communities respond to a large earthquake on the South Island’s Alpine Fault are among this year’s recipients of Civil Defence Emergency Management (CDEM) Resilience Fund grants.
New guide for Unlocking Language Barriers
Te Tari Mātāwaka (Ministry for Ethnic Communities) have released a new guide, ‘Unlocking Language Barriers’.
Weekly Update from the Cyclone Recovery Unit - 10 July 2023
Update from the Cyclone Recovery Unit
WREMO’s giant poo raises awareness of emergency toilets
The 2011 Christchurch earthquake highlighted the vulnerability of sewerage systems to disruption during an earthquake. It showed how vital it is that we plan for this and that communities are prepared to manage their own wee and poo following a large earthquake.
Weekly Update from the Cyclone Recovery Unit - 3 July 2023
Update from the Cyclone Recovery Unit
NEMA's After Action Review of the 2023 North Island Severe Weather Event
Following the response to the North Island Severe Weather Event (Auckland Flooding and Cyclone Gabrielle events) NEMA is undertaking an After Action Review (AAR) of our role and actions in the response and early recovery phases of the event.
Registrations now open for Aotearoa New Zealand’s national ShakeOut drill.
Registrations are now open for New Zealand ShakeOut 2023, our national earthquake drill and tsunami hīkoi. Sign up at www.shakeout.govt.nz.
Weekly Update from the Cyclone Recovery Unit - 26 June 2023
Update from the Cyclone Recovery Unit