The Mitigation Framework Leadership Group is seeking input on topics related to the National Mitigation Investment Strategy. The goal of the strategy is to identify data, information, ideas, and experience to help guide national investments in disaster resilience and hazard mitigation.
Major disasters like Hurricane Sandy, EF-5 tornadoes in Oklahoma and extreme weather events in Colorado persistently test our Nation’s capacity to adapt and recover. Federal, state, local, tribal, territorial, non-profit, and private sector organizations have accepted the challenge to make communities and critical infrastructure less susceptible to these hazards.
However, each organization has different approaches, funding sources, mandates, and requirements for investing in efforts to mitigate disaster risk. This has created a complicated mix of priorities and pathways for communities to navigate if they want to incorporate mitigation and long-term disaster resilience into planning, building and rebuilding.
A National Mitigation Investment Strategy accomplishes two goals:
- Increases the effectiveness of investments in reducing disaster losses and increases community resilience
- Engages stakeholders across the nation in identifying and implementing strategies that can help guide resource allocation decisions by the federal government, as well as, state, local, tribal and territorial entities.
Please feel free to comment on or discuss this topic or any of these topics. If you prefer to e-mail your response directly, e-mail it to fema-nmis@fema.dhs.gov (The e-mail address is case sensitive, so please use all lower case). For more information and opportunities to provide input, please visit our website at www.fema.gov/national-mitigation-framework.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Resilient Built Environment
- Examples of how you, your business, professional organization or community planned or invested to mitigate natural hazard risks, either in anticipation or because of a disaster. Mitigation measures could include building or infrastructure design improvements.
- Examples of factors (events, people, experiences) that influenced you as a person, business, professional organization or community in deciding to make investments in becoming more resilient to disasters.
- Examples of financial, technical or other assistance, or incentives, that were available to help support decision making and financing, and from whom (federal, state, local, private, or other).
- Examples of types assistance you may have sought, but the assistance was not available with respect to necessary timing, coordination, or other constraints
Improved Coordination of Disaster Risk Management among Federal, State, Local, Tribal, Territorial, and Private Entities
- Examples of your experience with disaster mitigation or resiliency coordination, both positive and negative.
- Examples of how different levels of government streamlined interactions in order to facilitate resilience investments.
State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Governments Increasingly Share Fiscal Responsibility for Risk Reduction with the Federal Government
- Examples from non-federal governmental organizations that have invested their own resources in a disaster resilience measure or program.
- Describe any incentives that may encourage non-federal government investment.
Increased Private Sector Involvement in Resilience Finance
- Examples of private sector organizations that helped with individual or community resilience implementation.
- Examples of any innovations or new ideas generated by the private sector used to implement a resiliency measure for a community or individual.
- Examples of any challenges or barriers for the private sector to implement a resiliency measure for a community or individual.
- Share your thoughts on how the government can more effectively engage private businesses and citizens in sharing responsibility for disaster risk reduction, including activities and investments to mitigate risk and build resilience.
Improved Provision of Federal Data and Digital Services to Support Risk-informed Mitigation Investment
- Examples of how you use technical data from Federal agencies when considering your disaster risks and implementing resiliency measures where the information was helpful and useful
- Examples of challenges in accessing or using Federal data.
Improved Disaster Risk Communication Resulting in Increased Risk Awareness and Risk Reduction
- Examples of specific programs or ad campaigns that motivated you to take an action to reduce your risk, as well as examples of risk communication that did not.
