This guide provides an overview of all necessary steps and framework for a community facing disaster recovery. It also provides an outline of all five subsequent recovery guides.
2. Alberta has experienced numerous disasters over the last century,
including wildfires, overland flooding, tornadoes, rock slides and
more. We know from experience that post-disaster community
recovery can be complex and lead to significant stress, and that
one of the best ways to reduce risks and increase community
resilience is by developing an all-hazards recovery plan, before a
disaster occurs.
INTRODUCTION
3. The Municipal Recovery Plan Toolkit includes five (5) municipal
recovery guides that will drive the development of the PDR
Contingency Plan and provide tools to assist in post-disaster
recovery management.
RECOVERY GUIDE ROADMAP
The five guides offer the following…
4. This guide provides the necessary
knowledge of recovery
frameworks, recovery planning
and decision-support tools to
enable municipal-elected officials,
public servants and key
stakeholders in the drafting of the
PDR Contingency Plan.
RECOVERY GUIDE 1 – RECOVERY PLAN
5. This guide provides the
information to consider,
decide, create and employ
an effective recovery
organization that supports a
disaster recovery plan for
your community.
RECOVERY GUIDE 2 – RECOVERY ORGANIZAT
6. This guide provides the
information required to
understand disaster risks
and to identify, prioritize and
implement the community
recovery projects.
RECOVERY GUIDE 3 – PROJECT IDENTIFICATION AND PRIORITIZA
7. This guide provides the
context, rationale and relevant
methodologies to support
business resumption and the
recovery of your local
economy, post-disaster.
RECOVERY GUIDE 4 – BUSINESS RESUPTION AND ECONOMIC RECOV
8. This guide provides a
thorough understanding of
communications and
stakeholder engagement
(CSE) in support of disaster
recovery, including CSE
planning and leveraging the
power of partnerships.
RECOVERY GUIDE 4 – COMMUNICATIONS AND STAKEHOLDER ENGAG
9. A PDR Contingency Plan provides clarity at the municipal level around fundamental
questions such as why, what, where, when, who and how a disaster recovery will
unfold. Based on an all-hazards risk assessment, the PDR Contingency Plan is a best-
practices recovery deliverable resulting from a proactive process of:
WHAT IS A PDR CONTINGENCY PLAN?
10. The following municipal products are prerequisites to the
commencement of the PDR Contingency Plan development:
PREREQUISITES – THE MUNICIPAL RECOVERY PLAN TOO
11. SUMMARY
Experience has demonstrated that community recovery can be
complex and pose significant challenges to municipalities. The
development of an all-hazards, community-specific PDR
Contingency Plan provides the tool to increase community
resilience and to reduce disaster risk. This toolkit is intended to
support municipal elected officials, public servants and other
stakeholders in the development of their community-specific
recovery plan.
The strength of municipalities-helping-municipalities serve to improve and complement the advice contained within these guides.
This process requires conceptualizing potential community recovery obstacles, as well as determining how to build back better and increase community resilience. For the best results, it should be developed in advance of a disaster when public participation and informed decision-making can occur without being influenced by the high levels of stress and urgency experienced post-disaster. Once complete, the PDR Contingency Plan is maintained as an addition to the Municipal Emergency Management Plan to ensure alignment to changing risks. Once completed, it remains poised for activation upon disaster.
