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Mandate and operations
The Swedish Civil Defence and Resilience Agency (MCF, formerly MSB) is the central governmental disaster and emergency management agency in Sweden. MCF is tasked by the Government to ensure that a society can jointly manage accidents and hazard events as effectively as possible. The aim is to minimise the effects on society, people, property and environment. MCF is responsible for issues concerning Civil Protection, Public Safety, Disaster and Emergency Management, and Civil Defence.
Internationally, MCF works to strengthen the capacities of affected countries, government institutions, multilateral organisations such as the UN and EU, and civil society organisations, to prevent, prepare, respond and recover from emergencies. MCF operations range from rapid response to emergencies by individual experts and team deployments, mobilisation and deployment of specialised equipment and relief items, to deployments of long-term specialist and complex capacity building programmes within disaster risk management, resilience and peace support operations.
All in all, MCF has four categories of response operations:
Domestic response operations and EU civil protection
Humanitarian assistance
Peace support operations
Capacity development and resilience
Standby Partnerships programme
MCF has been a partner to the UN since 1991. Since then, serveral partnerships have been established. MCF have partnership agreements with WFP, OCHA, UNHCR, UNICEF, UNDP, ICRC, UNMAS/UNOPS, UNDP, IOM, UN WOMEN, UNFPA.
MCF’s international capacity is divided in to four overall areas of support:
Deployment of Experts (individuals or teams)
Support modules (equipment, support services, and support staff)
Capacity development projects
Training and exercises