Matt CampbellCommunity Planning and Capacity

Building Recovery Support FunctionNational Coordinator, FEMA

Crafting and designing programs for a safer (and more prosperous) future

• 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?

Crafting and designing programs for a safer and more prosperous future

Physical (environment, people, infrastructure)

Capability/capacity - social, organizational, political

-Which comes first?

What is resiliency?

Leadership & strategyHealth & wellbeingInfrastructure & environmentEconomy & society

What is Resiliency

From Rockefeller City Resilience Framework

Leadership Planning Community engagement Recovery management

Focusing one the higher problem that enable/disable to accomplish physical resilience

What happens when a community doesn’t have it?

ResilientCommunity?

• 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

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

Where do we go

• NHMA• NADO• ASFPM

• USACE• EDA• NOAA

• APA• ICMA• NACO• AIA• ARC

• EPA• HUD• USDA• DOT• DOI• CNCS Leader-

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Community Engagemnt

Manage-ment

How do we come together around these needs?

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.

Community Planning and Capacity Building Recovery Support Function

Changes in leadership Lack of direction Missed opportunities Premature/improper investments No policy/wrong policy Disconnect from stakeholders and from

external agencies and organizations

Lack resilience = inability to adapt

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

Successful =resilient communities