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As per the IASC guideline, Emergency Preparedness Plan presents two parts:
- Minimum Preparedness Actions (MPA): to be systematically implemented in all countries and context
- Advanced Preparedness Actions and contingency planningplan: to be implemented for a specific risk when this risk has become very likely
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Coordinate the design and implementation of Minimum Preparedness Actions with the Inter-sector and the WASH ERP task force
In all countries and contextscontexts, Minimum Preparedness Actions should be implemented by relevant agencies. They include:
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When in a country a particular risk becomes high, it should triggers Advanced Preparedness Actions. They include:
- Reaching out to national counterparts, local partners, communities to coordinate preparedness plans and assess response capacity;
- Deploying appropriate coordination, information management, needs assessments and response monitoring systems and developing a sourcing strategy for priority relief items;
- Organizing simulation exercises to increase readiness to respond;
- Contingency planning
Contingency plans are therefore A contingency plan is established only when a certain risk becomes likely. They are ideally intersectorial, but are usually composed of several sectorial plan to facilitate the coordination by clusters. A contingency plan will include the following information for the identified specific risk:
- Situation & Risk analysis: the identified risk must be monitored. Basic scenarios should be are developed based on how the expected disaster or emergency will evolve and what will be the likely impact on the humanitarian situation and the corresponding intervention.
- WASH response Response strategy: what would be the WASH response logical framework analysis in case this risk occurs: objectives, results, activities, indicators
- Operational delivery: define what would be the geographical targeting, what would be the prefered preferred aid delivery modality, what are the recommendation recommendations regarding using local markets etc.
- Coordination arrangement: agreed coordination structure, priority cluster to be activated, relationship with local government or military
- Operational support arrangement: arrangement regarding needs assessment, response monitoring, transport of material and team, security aspects
- Preparedness gaps and action: follow up on agencies preparedness actions
- Funding requirements: what would be the cost of the response, what would be the likely sources of funding, funds prepositioning
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