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Emergency Management Organization
Mitigation & Preparedness Program
The Mitigation and Preparedness Program (MPP) is an opportunity for eligible local authorities to build local resiliency against extreme weather events and invest in disaster mitigation and preparedness. An MPP program is only established for disasters that are cost-shareable with Canada and when a Disaster Financial Assistance (DFA) program is approved by the Manitoba government.
Local authorities will be notified when there is an approved MPP to which they may apply.
When Manitoba establishes a DFA program that is cost-shareable with Canada under the Disaster Financial Assistance Arrangements, eligible local authorities have the option to either:
- Pay the DFA deductible based on the current cost-sharing formula; or
- Under the MPP, receive 100 per cent of eligible DFA costs back from Manitoba and invest the amount that would have been the deductible into an approved disaster mitigation and preparedness project.
The Application Process:
- Reminder: The MPP is only available to local authorities that are part of an eligible DFA Program. If your local authority has not been notified that it is eligible to apply to the MPP, you may view our mitigation funding page or contact the MPP team at [email protected] to determine if there are other sources of funding available for mitigation projects.
- If you are eligible to apply for the MPP, download and complete the proposal template. Please consult the Program Guidelines for more information.
- Once you have completed all items in the checklist on the proposal template, please email the completed documents to [email protected].
- The MPP team will then review the application and get in touch with you to discuss.
- Projects enhance preparedness or increase resiliency against disasters.
- Projects align with local authority's existing emergency plan.
- Projects align with one or more of the program's guiding principles.
- Once projects have been reviewed and approved, local authorities will be notified and asked to sign a contribution agreement that sets the terms for the project to proceed.
- Following the signing of the agreement, Manitoba EMO will reimburse the local authority's DFA deductible. Reimbursement will occur during the claim's evaluation process.
- The local authority will then complete the project as outlined and approved. Once the project starts (whether immediately or later on using funds in the reserve fund), local authorities will be required to submit a brief monthly report. A reporting template will be included in the contribution agreement. Then, once the project is complete, the local authority is required to complete a final report. Once reviewed, Manitoba will notify the local authority that its project is closed.
- More details on the reimbursement and reporting processes can be found in the program guidelines.