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Thank you to everyone who provided feedback on our Group Strategic Group Plan 2025-2030 and on the Draft Group Plan Actions 2025-2030. 

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Update on the Waikato CDEM Strategic Group Plan 2025-2030

Following the decisions made by the Waikato Civil Defence Emergency Management Group Joint Committee at their meeting on 16 June, the following is a summary of the key amendments made to The Plan following the consultation process:

  • Approval section: revised to reflect the post-consultation status.
  • Foreword: revised by the Joint Committee Chair to acknowledge the consultation process and its outcomes. 
  • Executive summary: clarified that Group Plan Actions are linked by reference to the Strategic Group Plan.
  • Objective 6: added a new outcome: “Emergency management planning caters for companion animals and livestock, recognising the strong human-animal bond that may drive people to protect them.”
  • Objective 9: amended to: “A well-coordinated and effective response to an emergency that reduces the impact to people and property and caters for the welfare and emergency management of companion animals and livestock.”
  • The 4 Rs of Emergency Management: restructured for clarity, with additional tables outlining risk and reduction measures.
  • Waikato Community: updated to include consideration for people with disabilities and including disability assistance dogs across all communications, policies, and plans.
  • Recovering costs: reworded to provide more context on the regional targeted rate.
  • Declaration of State of Emergency (SOE)/Local Transition Period: reworded to align terminology and structure between response and recovery.
  • Recovery pre-planning: heading changed to “Strategic Planning for Recovery (pre-planning).”
  • Administrative updates: corrections made to web links, typographical errors, cross-referencing between objectives and appendix section, and headings.

The National Emergency Management Agency is currently conducting a technical review of the Plan. Following this, the Minister for Emergency Management will provide commentary. Once these requirements are completed, the Joint Committee is scheduled to adopt the final Strategic Group Plan 2025-2030 on Monday, 22 September 2025. The approved Plan will be published on our website then and come into effect on 1 October 2025.