Emergency Management Assistance Program [Umbrella Program]
Program Category:
Climate Adaptation
Program Sub-Category:
Emergency Mitigation / Preparedness / Planning
Status: Open
Funder
Indigenous Services Canada (ISC)
Funder Organization Type
- Federal Government
In partnership with First Nations communities, provincial and territorial governments and non-government organizations, Indigenous Services Canada's Emergency Management Assistance Program (EMAP) helps communities on reserve access emergency assistance services.
EMAP provides funding to First Nations communities so they can build resiliency, prepare for natural hazards and respond to them using the 4 pillars of emergency management:
- mitigation
- preparedness
- response
- recovery
EMAP aims to be:
- flexible
- culturally sensitive
- responsive to the unique strengths and customs of First Nations communities
- adaptive to the evolving challenges resulting from emergency events
The program also provides funding to provinces, territories and non-government organizations to support on-reserve emergency management.
Eligible Community
To be eligible for funding under the Emergency management Assistance Program (EMAP), the emergency event must have impacted, or the proposed project must directly support, First Nations located on:
- a reserve, as defined in s. 2 (1) of the Indian Act, R.S.C., 1985, c. I-5
- lands formerly defined as a reserve or lands set aside which now form part of modern treaty settlement lands