Preparing for Disaster Recovery Planning

Recovery planning is perhaps the last plan to be developed in many an emergency management organizations. We can be captivated by response planning, and if you want pre-disaster mitigation funding, you will need a mitigation plan.

The threshold for requiring recovery plans has yet to be crossed unless you are looking to become Emergency Management Accreditation Program-certified.  

If you are wondering where to start, check out this FEMA publication, Pre-Disaster Recovery Planning Guide for Local Governments. Like most tasks waiting to be done, starting is the first step, and perhaps the hardest element in the planning process — overcoming the inertia to get going when no one is bugging you to do the planning.

If you want to set yourself and your program apart from others — recovery planning will likely do that for you.