Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning for Community Resilience

1. Unit 3: Recovery Planning: Pre-Disaster, During, and After

2. Unit Objectives • Develop goals for ensuring community recovery. • Identify high-priority action steps for reaching these goals. • Describe the pre-disaster recovery planning process. • List ways that recovery planning is integrated into the response and recovery mission areas, as well as pre-disaster planning phase. • Identify methods and approaches to make pre-disaster recovery planning part of the community and organizational culture.

3. Mission Areas of Emergency Management Where does this planning fit into the mission areas?

4. Recovery Continuum Recovery activities vary from short, to intermediate, to long-term.

5. Discussion Question Why do communities need recovery plans?

6. Reference Documents • Can assist communities in developing recovery plans • Provide a framework for planners • Include: • National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF), 2016 • Effective Coordination of Recovery Resources for State, Tribal, Territorial and Local Incidents, 2015 • Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning Guide for Local Governments, 2016 • Pre-Disaster Planning for Post Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction: Next Generation, American Planning Association, 2014

7. National Disaster Recovery Framework (NDRF) • Serves as a roadmap for communities to conduct planning efforts both before and after a disaster. • Provides guidance on how all levels of government will work together following a disaster.

8. Guiding Principles of the NDRF • Individual and family empowerment • Leadership and local primacy • Pre-Disaster recovery planning • Partnerships and inclusiveness • Unity of effort • Timeliness and flexibility • Resilience and sustainability • Psychological and emotional recovery

9. Recovery Success Factors • Effective decision-making and coordination • Integration of community recovery planning processes • Well-managed recovery • Proactive community engagement, public participation and public awareness • Well-administered financial acquisition • Organizational flexibility • Resilient rebuilding

10. Recovery Support Functions (RSFs) • Key federal coordination structure for functional areas of assistance. • Brings together federal agencies, including those not traditionally associated with emergency response. • Builds on the concept of Emergency Support Functions (ESFs) • 6 Federal RSFs: • Community Planning and Capacity Building • Economic • Health and Social Services • Housing • Infrastructure Systems • Natural and Cultural Resources

11. Leading, Organizing, and Planning Discussion Questions: Who would lead a disaster recovery planning effort in your jurisdiction and what are they responsible for? What might not be clear about their responsibilities?

12. Local Disaster Recovery Manager (LDRM) • NDRF strongly recommends that counties appoint an LDRM • This person will be responsible for : • Organizing, coordinating, and advancing recovery efforts • Manage redevelopment efforts • Represent and speak on behalf of the community

13. Recovery Task Force • Leaders will require support from all sectors of the county, especially those with a direct role in the recovery process. • Recovery Task Forces are often established to serve this role. • Collectively, a Task Force will establish a vision for the county, as well as develop policies and requirements.

14. Pre-Disaster Planning Process Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning Guide for Local Governments • Designed to assist county leadership and stakeholders in development of recovery capabilities • Builds on the planning processes that are explained in CPG 101 and in the Local Mitigation Planning Handbook

15. Key Considerations for Planning Successful recovery planning doesn’t happen in a vacuum.

16. Recovery Complexities and Policies • Integrating resilience and mitigation measures, addressing building codes, hazards, non-conforming uses • Old or obsolete infrastructure, community facilities, need for reconfiguration or new infrastructure • Changes in tax base • Shift in county and local businesses • Staffing and government operations: short- and long-term • Community engagement, communications • Application of mitigation plan and policies, comprehensive plan, economic development plan, school district plans, capital/facilities plans

17. Effective Coordination Guide • Meant to be used following a disaster • Addresses: • What is the function and process to coordinate with other local and county jurisdictions as well as state and Federal governments? • Focuses on identification and creative leveraging of funding

18. Community Recovery Management Toolkit Community Recovery Management Toolkit Link also available via this URL: https://www.fema.gov/national-disaster-recovery-framework/community-recovery-management-toolkit

19. Local Discussion • Recovery Organization • Recovery Plan (Refer to Handout in Student Manual)

20. Unit Summary Key Learning Points • Successful community preparedness efforts require the involvement and interest of all stakeholders and community members in the planning and exercise process • Plans express the intent of the community to respond to and recover from a disaster • The best written plans benefit no one if they are not understood and exercised • Planning for recovery begins pre-disaster

21. Questions, Comments, or Concerns?