Recovery Planning Quick-Start Guide + Template

Organize recovery priorities, stakeholders and decisions before drafting your plan.

What's included

An Excel workbook with Priorities, Stakeholders and Decisions registers, deadline calculations, status dropdowns, completion-evidence checks, an overview, current instructions and a separate fictional example; an HTML quick-start guide; a text read-me; and a six-page editable Word recovery-plan template with practical prompts and a worked example.

Who it's for

Community and organizational planners developing a starting point for recovery planning.

How to use it

Read the quick-start guide, populate the workbook, adapt the recovery-plan template and review the draft with responsible partners.

Before you choose

Customize the plan to local needs, authorities, partners and resources. This is a planning starting point; it does not provide funding or award administration.

Formats and software

4 downloadable files. Microsoft Excel and Word are recommended for the workbook and plan template. Open the HTML guide in a web browser. The Word template covers activation, governance, recovery priorities, resources, communications, completion and plan maintenance. Digital product; no physical item is shipped.

Follow the replacement workbook’s Instructions for its current worksheet layout. Registers hold 200 records; extend and verify bounded formulas before adding more.