IFRC/NS business continuity planning
The overall goal of the planning guidelines you can download below is to provide guidance to the Federation Secretariat and Red Cross/Red Crescent Societies about the importance of Business Continuity Planning, which establishes the basis for the organization to continue functioning during the crises, and recover and resume business processes when programs have been disrupted unexpectedly. Because RC/RC societies play a crucial role in the overall emergency disaster response, disruptions in service should be minimized in order to maintain public trust and confidence in the RC/RC emergency response capabilities. As such, RC/RC management should incorporate business continuity considerations into the overall design of their emergency response model to proactively mitigate the risk of program disruptions.
This planning guide is an assembly of existing standard operating procedures, plans and best practices that will explore the key components of a Business Continuity planning process. It will also provide a high-level framework for the creation, implementation, and maintenance of a business Continuity Plan (BCP).
Business continuity planning guidelines
- Business continuity planning guidelines (February 2020) – EN FR SP AR RU ZH
| | - Business Continuity Checklist (February 2020) – EN FR SP AR RU ZH
- Business Continuity Delegation of Responsibilities and Assignments (February 2020) – EN FR SP AR RU ZH
- Operational Business Continuity Plan – Organizational Critical Functions and Service (February 2020) – EN FR SP AR RU ZH
- Operational Business Continuity Plan – Critical Incident Staff Matrix (February 2020) – EN FR SP AR RU ZH
- Operational Business Continuity Plan – Risk assessment Matrix (February 2020) – EN FR SP AR RU ZH
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Contingency plans provide an outline of decisions and measures to be taken if circumstances should occur in relation to a specific activity. They generally relate to a planned event, while the business continuity plans relate to programs and assets that are already operational. Even though the risks are different, the development of the contingency plan is relatively uniformed. Although policies will not always cover every eventuality, having contingency plans and regularly updating them to work through ‘what if?’ scenarios, as well as having effective crisis management procedures in place, will go a long way towards keeping a situation under control and maintaining safe operations.
IFRC’s Critical Incident Management Protocol is used in situations that, threatens, or has impact on, the safety / security of personnel, assets or operations to the extent that there is the potential to be a significant disruption or even incapacity to continue to operate. The term critical incident is used in situations that affect the organizsation directly as opposed to the organization responding to situations that affect others. For more information on IFRC’s security procedures, see the
security management webpage.
