Vision, Mission, Values and Principles

• Vision
• A safe Manitoba that is resilient to all hazards, emergencies, and disasters.
• Mission
• Manitoba EMO will work continuously with partners by coordinating and integrating activities to mitigate against, prepare for, respond to, and recover from hazards and disasters.
• Values
• Accountability: To ensure trust and transparency through reporting, information sharing, and compliance with standards.
• Agility: To apply timely, creative, and innovative approaches.
• Integrity: To provide a consistent and uncompromising adherence to effective, efficient, and high-quality service.
• Partnership: To continuously engage with partners in a collaborative, coordinated, and integrated manner.
• Guiding Principles
• Adaptability: Emergency management applies innovative approaches to solving disaster challenges.
• Collaborative: Emergency management continuously creates and sustains relationships among individuals and organizations to encourage trust, promote a team atmosphere, build consensus, and facilitate communication of a common purpose.
• Comprehensive: Emergency management takes a proactive approach and integrates all hazards, and coordinates mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery functions with partners.
• Professional: Emergency management prioritizes evidence-based approaches to training, education, and public stewardship.
• Quality Assurance: Emergency management promotes active engagements with a focus on continuous improvements and applying best practices and lessons learned through exercises and events to build on disaster resistance and disaster resilient communities.
• Risk-based: Emergency management uses sound risk management principles to evaluate hazards, risks, and vulnerabilities to improve decision making and reduce likelihood of hazard occurrence and severity.
• Service Excellence: Emergency management strives to deliver services to clients and partners to support in the delivery of an efficient and effective emergency management program.