Corrective action plan: following the review of the civil defence emergency management response to the 22 February 2011 Christchurch earthquake

1. The Ministry of Civil Defence & Emergency Management (MCDEM)
commissioned an independent review of the civil defence emergency
management (CDEM) response to the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
The review’s terms of reference was noted by Cabinet in November 2011 [CAB
Min (11) 41/9].
2. The purpose of the review was to identify, from an emergency management
perspective, the practices that should be reinforced and the processes and
policies that need improving. It focused on the emergency response and how well
the response arrangements in the National CDEM Plan worked. The review
included the range of agencies and organisations involved in the response. The
scope excluded recovery arrangements.
3. The Cabinet Committee on Canterbury Earthquake Recovery (CER) and Cabinet
noted the Review of the Civil Defence Emergency Management Response to the
22 February Christchurch Earthquake (the report) on 24 September 2012 and
1 October 2012 respectively [CAB Min (12) 35/2]. Cabinet directed that MCDEM
report back to the Committee on an interagency Corrective Action Plan in
response to the report’s 108 recommendations, for noting, by November 20121
.
4. This document represents the interagency Corrective Action Plan (the Plan) and
will form the basis for the report to the CER in November 2012.