Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning Guide for Local Governments - FEMA Publication FD 008-03
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Type of
Planning
Pre-Disaster Post-Disaster
STRATEGIC
Driven by policy,
establishes
planning
priorities
• Develop a mitigation plan that establishes
post-disaster risk reduction priorities and
policies to guide post-disaster recovery and
redevelopment.
• Establish pre-disaster priorities and policies
to guide recovery and reinvestment across the
other Recovery Core Capabilities.
• Develop an inclusive and accessible whole
community public engagement strategy.
• Evaluate current conditions; assess risk,
vulnerability, and potential community-wide
consequences.
• Integrate recovery and mitigation goals and
policies into other Federal, State, regional, and
community plans.
• Establish priorities and identify opportunities
to build resilience, including sustainable
development, equity, community capacity, and
mitigation measures.
• Evaluate community conditions, re-assess risk,
evaluate needs, and forecast future needs and
trends.
• Set goals and objectives: short-term,
intermediate, and long-term; engage the public
in the process.
• Identify opportunities to build in future
resilience through mitigation.
• Consider standards for sustainable, universally
accessible, healthy community design and
construction that also integrates mitigation and
long-term resilience building activities.
• Ensure policies are inclusive of the whole
community, including people with disabilities
and others with access and functional needs.
OPERATIONAL
Describes roles
and
responsibilities,
focuses on
coordinating
and integrating
the activities
of the whole
community
• Establish clear leadership, operational
coordination, and decision-making structures at
the local, State, tribal, and Federal levels.
• Develop pre-disaster partnerships to ensure
engagement of all potential resources.
• Identify and engage whole community
stakeholders, including the general public,
community leaders, faith-based organizations,
nonprot organizations, private-sector entities,
and health providers (including behavioral
health).
• Identify limitations in community recovery
management capacity and the means to
supplement this capacity, such as training
and education, and make it available to all
stakeholders.
• Determine roles, responsibilities, and resources
of whole community partners.
• Establish continuity of operations plans to
ensure essential recovery services can be
delivered during all circumstances.
• Organize, build on, and adapt as necessary,
pre-existing plans and priorities, including pre-
disaster recovery and mitigation plans.
• Use a community-driven and locally managed
process designed to promote local decision-
making and ownership of the recovery planning
and implementation effort.
• Work collaboratively with all groups of people
affected by the disaster to promote inclusive
and accessible outreach to their communities
and address issues relevant to them.
• Ensure inclusion and encourage participation of
individuals and communities that may require
alternative and/or additional outreach support.
• Keep the public informed on all aspects of
recovery and encourage collaboration across
partners.
• Implement a coordination structure and
build partnerships among local agencies,
jurisdictions, and State, tribal, and Federal
governments.
• Develop tools and metrics for evaluating
progress against set goals, objectives, and
milestones.
TACTICAL
Identifying
specic projects
and managing
resources
• Establish specic local procedures,
requirements, regulations, or ordinances
to address specic, expected post-disaster
recovery actions.
• Establish specic plans, contracts, and
resources for tactical activities expected post-
disaster (e.g., debris management, recovery
management, temporary housing, building
permitting).
• Identify, adapt, implement, and manage
actions, procedures, programs, requirements,
organizations, regulations, ordinances, and
policies to address specic needs.
• Identify specic projects in areas of critical
importance to the State, region, or community’s
overall recovery.
• Provide well-dened activities and outcomes,
including schedules and milestones, aimed at
achieving recovery.
Table 1 Pre- and Post-Disaster: Critical Planning Tasks