Quick Planning Guides in Preparedness, Response and Recovery

This guide is designed to highlight how a business resilience organization in the Pacific, the Vanuatu Business Resilience Council (VBRC), has integrated itself into Government and non-governmental humanitarian processes to play a meaningful role in disaster and climate preparedness, response and recovery as well as influence resilience building overall.

This quick planning guide is meant for private sector networks in the Pacific who are currently engaged in emergency operations and who are interested to learn more about the VBRC’s approaches to emergency response. Furthermore, the purpose of this document is to provide private sector networks with examples of best practices from the VBRC in supporting national disaster preparedness, response and recovery in collaboration with Government and other key partners. Our story has been one of localization. Rather than always await external experts, the VBRC has shown that it can play a leading role in disaster and climate management.

This Guidance is not specifically tailored to a particular type of industry and only broadly covers general emergency response priorities of the private sector networks. To simplify things, the guide is organized according to the internationally accepted Disaster Management Cycle’s three key phases:

1 . Preparedness

2 . Response

3 . Recovery