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How Do You Plan for Recovery?
Tuesday May 12, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am MDT
PIC 233
Pre-disaster recovery planning helps communities strategically plan for recovery before a disaster occurs. These efforts facilitate timely and strategic recovery, and helps align investments made during recovery with community priorities. Further, pre-disaster recovery facilitates timely recovery that can reduce the long-term impacts of disasters, minimize costs and support more equitable recovery outcomes.
Pre-disaster recovery lays out the vision, governance and organizational structures, as well as the priorities, and roles and responsibilities for recovery.

This workshop will walk participants through the steps needed to develop a recovery plan, the partners to include, and the resources available for communities. Collectively, these steps are designed to set communities up for a more effective recovery that improves resilience and reduces risk.
Participants will be introduced to the essential components of pre-disaster recovery planning and guided through two scenario-based activities. The first interactive activity will walk participants through the process of creating a recovery vision. The second activity will help participants understand how to organize recovery into thematic sectors for a whole-of-society approach to disaster resilience. This engagement session can be brought back to communities to run in their own communities.

This session aligns with theme as throughout the session, facilitators will encourage participants to consider how the vision and proposals of recovery actors will reflect the voices of communities that may face barriers to participation, including newcomers, seniors and those experiencing homelessness – a core component of pre-disaster recovery planning.
Speakers
avatar for Sophie Guilbault

Sophie Guilbault


Sophie is the Director of Partnerships at the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction (ICLR), a multi-disciplinary disaster risk reduction research institute affiliated with Western University.

She is also co-leading the Canadian Centre for Recovery and Resilience, a joint initiative between ICLR and Public Safety Canada and ICLR. Since joining ICLR in 2013, she has developed strong expertise in municipal adaptation, advancing practical strategies to reduce risk at the c... Read More →
avatar for Chaka Zinyemba

Chaka Zinyemba

Senior Policy Advisor, Public Safety Canada & Canadian Centre for Recovery and Resilience
Chaka Zinyemba's strengths lie in relationship building, creating spaces for meaningful dialogue and action, and supporting communities navigate uncertain environments. He specializes in recovery planning and currently works as a Senior Policy Advisor with Public Safety Canada where... Read More →
Tuesday May 12, 2026 9:00am - 10:30am MDT
PIC 233 NAIT Producitivity and Innovation Centre
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