Community Recovery Management Toolkit

Disaster recovery is a time of tremendous pressure and work at the community level. Local officials are faced with pressure to rebuild quickly, communicate with stakeholders, resolve conflicts, seek funding from a variety of different agencies, and respond to new grant, contract, and financial requirements. However, disaster recovery is also a time of significant opportunity for communities to rebuild in a thoughtful and resilient way.

The resources in this toolkit are geared toward helping community leaders through the long-term disaster recovery process and are intended to be useful at any phase of recovery.

Key Post-Disaster Recovery Resource Topics

Browse our "key resources," which are curated collections to help you get started, or search the full library.

Organize and Lead

Are you trying to determine how to organize or lead your community through disaster recovery?

Manage Grants & Finances

Are you concerned about grant management, community finances, or rules about disaster funding?

Assess, Plan & Decide

Do you want to know how to make informed and strategic decisions for your recovery?

Identify Funding Programs

Do you want to know more about disaster recovery funding and assistance programs?

Search the Full Recovery Management Toolkit

Search through the filterable library of recovery management information to quickly find tools, resources, examples and trainings that most fit your community’s needs. Click the resource's title to see all the information.

NOTICE
Resources provided are for informational purposes only and are compiled with publicly available information. Please directly consult the provider of a potential resource for current program information and to verify the applicability and requirements of a particular program. When you go to another website you are subject to its privacy policies. FEMA does not endorse any non-government websites, companies, or applications.

FEMA is currently reviewing the resources of the roadmap to align with Executive Orders that occurred on or after January 20, 2025.

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Mitigation Ideas: A Resource for Reducing Risk to Natural Hazards

Federal Emergency Management Agency - Hazard Mitigation Program

Communities can use this resource to identify and evaluate a range of potential mitigation actions for reducing risk to natural hazards and disasters.

Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grants

Federal Emergency Management Agency - Hazard Mitigation Program

Guidance and resources on FEMA's Hazard Mitigation Assistance Grant Programs.

Mitigation Planning Portal GIS Mapping Service Quick Start Guide // Mitigation Planning Portal (MPP)

Federal Emergency Management Agency - Hazard Mitigation Program

Portal in which the public can view the current status of mitigation plans tracked in the MPP through a Geospatial Information System (GIS) mapping service.

Hazard Mitigation: Integrating Best Practices into Planning

Federal Emergency Management Agency - Hazard Mitigation Program

Data feed for identifying the status of state, tribal, and local mitigation plans status.

Lessons in Community Recovery: Seven Years of Emergency Support Function #14 Long-Term Community Recovery from 2004 to 2011

Federal Emergency Management Agency - Interagency Coordination Division

Lessons learned from whole community disaster recovery processes for the use of recovery leaders at all levels of government and in the private sector, to improve pre-disaster planning and post-disaster recovery.

Local Disaster Recovery Managers - Guide for Local Government

Federal Emergency Management Agency - Interagency Coordination Division

A comprehensive list of Local Disaster Recovery Manager (LDRM) pre- and post-disaster responsibilities.

Long-Term Community Recovery Planning Process: A Self Help Guide

Federal Emergency Management Agency - Interagency Coordination Division

Guide which provides direction for local stakeholders engaged in a post-disaster recovery process.

Select Funding & Technical Assistance to Support Post-Disaster Local Planning and Management

Federal Emergency Management Agency - Interagency Coordination Division

A list of federal funding resources for local government disaster recovery

The U.S. Participation Playbook

General Services Administration - Technology Transformation Services

?Resource for government managers to effectively evaluate and build better services through public participation and performance metrics.

Disaster Recovery Cost Documentation

Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA)

Many governments each year must face the challenge of disasters. Financial assistance frequently is available from one or more levels of government (e.g., Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), state).

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