3: Strategic Understanding

Build Unity of Effort and Common Strategic Understanding Among the Emergency Management Team

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The Nation must prepare for, protect against, respond to, recover from, and mitigate numerous risks to the health and welfare of the American people. It is essential to develop a common understanding of risk to effectively plan, assess gaps, mitigate, and build capabilities to address risk-based requirements. The emergency management team needs to focus on those issues that challenge the national response capabilities. Addressing these risks effectively requires unity of effort and joint planning and actions across the distributed emergency management enterprise, including FEMA, its Regions, and all of its partners -- other Federal agencies and state, local, tribal and territorial governments, private industry, non-governmental organizations, faith- and community-based organizations, and the public. This, in turn, necessitates that we build shared context and understanding with our partners of the severity of the challenges we face. Based on this shared understanding, we can then work together to set priorities jointly and design solutions that address these challenges so that we may act with unity of purpose and achieve concrete outcomes that benefit the safety and welfare of all citizens.

Stakeholder(s):

• Emergency Management Team

Objective(s):

3.1: THIRAs

3.2: Action Plans

3.3: Building Codes, Protection & Mitigation

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