The document discusses community planning and capacity building for disaster recovery. It focuses on supporting local governments and determining what is needed to be successful in adapting after a disaster. Key factors in community resilience include leadership, planning, community engagement, and recovery management. The Community Planning and Capacity Building Recovery Support Function coordinates support from federal and non-federal groups to help local governments improve their planning, coordination, and public information capabilities for disaster recovery. Failure to adapt can result from lack of leadership, direction, coordination, and community involvement.

1. Community Planning and Capacity
Building Recovery Support Function
National Coordinator, FEMA
Crafting and designing programs
for a safer (and more prosperous)
future

2. • Key question - Are communities able to
adapt effectively/appropriately after a
disaster? If not, why not?
 A focus on supporting local governments and
officials
◦ What is needed to be successful?
◦ How can we help them, how, when?
◦ What are we doing/should we be doing together?

3.  Physical (environment, people, infrastructure)
 Capability/capacity - social, organizational,
political
-Which comes first?

4. Leadership &
strategy
Health &
wellbeing
Infrastructure
& environment
Economy &
society
From Rockefeller City Resilience Framework

5.  Leadership
 Planning
 Community engagement
 Recovery management

6. What happens when a community doesn’t have it?
Resilient
Community?
• Able to organize?
• Able to communicate
community direction?
• Able to engage and
motivate community?
• Able to act quickly, set
appropriate policies?
• Sufficient human capital?
• Able to formulate
comprehensive actions?
• Able to coordinate
horizontally/vertically?
• Able to manage functions
of local government?
• Able to maintain
momentum?
Able to adapt
and act
Less able to
adapt
and act

7.  Identify key decision points and points of
“failure” or success in community process
 What strategies are appropriate to influence
those?
 Who can help with those strategies?
 What can we develop now, to apply before
and after an event?
◦ Alliances and coordination
◦ Guidance, tools, examples, training
◦ Resources and capabilities

8. •NHMA
•NADO
•ASFPM
•USACE
•EDA
•NOAA
•APA
•ICMA
•NACO
•AIA
•ARC
•EPA
•HUD
•USDA
•DOT
•DOI
•CNCS
Leader-
ship
Plannin
g
Community
Engagemnt
Manage-
ment

9.  The CPCB RSF enables communities to
effectively lead, plan, and manage recovery,
and to engage the whole community in the
recovery planning process.
 CPCB RSF coordinates federal and non-
federal organizations support to local and
tribal governments to build their ability to
apply the Operational Coordination, Planning,
and Public Information Core Capabilities.

10.  Changes in leadership
 Lack of direction
 Missed opportunities
 Premature/improper investments
 No policy/wrong policy
 Disconnect from stakeholders and from
external agencies and organizations

11.  Decisive – appropriate planning and actions at
decision points
 Strong, consistent, supported leadership and
vision
 Understanding of and appropriate application of
law, regulation and policy
 Coordinated, planned investment choices and
processes
 Proactive and resources recovery management
 Community support, cohesion, involvement,
psychology as a result of involvement and
ownership