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Two perspectives drive the structure:– From the Federal level, it is top-down:

• How do we add the right resources at the right time to the community’s effort?

• Focus is on the gravest dangers facing the Nation (National Planning Scenarios).

– From the Community (State and local) level, it is bottom-up:• How do we work with response organizations?• How do we get additional resources?• How do we work with the general public?• All hazard and at various magnitudes.

The two intersect at the Regional level—either through established FEMA Regions or Regional compacts/consortiums.

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National Planning Structure

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The National Planning Structure

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Planning focus

Overlapping Authority Model•Layered response•Decentralization•No dominance by any level

Inclusive Authority Model•Hierarchical response•Assumes sharing of power•Federal government leads coordination

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Planning is all about building relationships and establishing linkages between involved groups.

The process must involve more than producing the “tangible” product:– Information sharing– Exercising, rehearsing, running simulations– Formalizing support (MOA and MOU)– Obtaining, maintaining, positioning material resources– Educating citizens and involving them in the process– Updating as materials, strategies, dangers, hazards, etc. change

HOWEVER – the tangible product is EQUALLY important!

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Process-focus vs. Plan-focus

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Purpose is to avoid having clusters of planners who have little contact with each other

From an organizational view, planning has to involve all groups with a managing role in disaster response, including non-local ones

National, regional, and community level disaster planning efforts need to be consistent and reinforcing of each other

Integration is nothing more than relationship building:– One’s own group needs to know what is expected of it and what

to do– Each group must also know how others intend to respond – Counterpart roles must be clear to facilitate coordination

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Vertical and horizontal integration

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Interaction between Mission Areas & Phases

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HS Mission Areas = OperationalEM Phases = Management Processes

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One view of bringing the pieces together

Mitigation

ProtectionPrevention

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All hazards approach

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One planning conceptIntegrated Planning System CPG 101 NIMS Preparedness NIMS Incident Command

Form the planning team

Understand the situation Understand the situation•Conduct research•Analyze the information

Understand the situation Gather information

Determine goals and objectives Determine goals and objectives Establish incident objectives and strategy

Estimate course and harm

Determine appropriate strategic goals

Plan development (analyze courses of action)

Develop and analyze courses of action, identify resources

Develop the plan Assess options and resource requirements

Plan preparation, review, approval Plan preparation, review, approval•Write the plan•Approve, and disseminate the plan

Prepare and disseminate the plan Plan and implement actions

Plan refinement and execution Plan refinement and execution•Exercise the plan and evaluate its effectiveness•Review, revise, and maintain the plan

Evaluate and revise the plan Evaluate

Review

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Form a Collaborative

Planning Team

Identify Core

Planning Team

Identify Expanded Planning

Team

Understand the Situation

Conduct Research

Analyze the Information

Determine Goals and Objectives

Determine Operational

Priorities

Set Goals and

Objectives

Plan Development

Develop and Analyze

Courses of Action

Identify Resources

Identify Information

and Intelligence

Needs

Plan Preparation, Review, and

Approval

Write the Plan

Approve the Plan

Disseminate the Plan

Plan Refinement

and Execution

Exercise the Plan

Review, Revise, & Maintain the Plan

MTG MTG

MTG

MTG

MTG

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The CPG 101 planning process

• The process is not new – it just feels new– Captures what planners were already doing that was not described

anywhere– The same steps are used in Federal planning

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Questions

CPG 101: LAYING THE FOUNDATION FOR A NATIONAL PLANNING STRUCTUREEmergency Management Higher Education Conference4 June 2009