Overview

CIPRR brings together core partners from the private and public sector through its Associate and Partner Chairs to study existing technologies and practices that can be combined in specific ways to meet community and business continuity needs after disaster or attack. The CCROA Advisory Committee will identify these challenges, CIPRR will subsequently develop recommendations to meet these challenges, and then CCROA will take the recommendations and conduct pilot demonstrations to test their value and efficacy.

The results of CIPRR's efforts will be annotated in case studies by KSG and then included in the National Blueprint for Secure Communities as part of the national template for local communities. The Associate Chairs represent core private sector partners, who in turn select a Partner Chair from the public sector to work together, and in tandem with the KSG and NCORP Task Force, in one of 5 sub-categories of 8 key sectors of community preparedness, response and recovery.

Associate Chairs will meet twice in 2007 at the Kennedy School of Government with representatives of the NCORP Task Force, the National Joint Terrorism Task Force (NJTTF), National Guard and other key stakeholders; and meet at the Joint Interagency Training Center (JITC) to develop not only the metrics of the year's pilot projects, but also to chart the agenda of the annual National Congress for Secure Communities and identify the following year's prospect communities for the next wave of pilot projects.

BACKGROUND

There are four basic programs that bring together the stakeholders and partners to promote these public/private partnerships to strengthen community preparedness:

* Associate Chairs: CIPRR will invite 40 private and community sector organizations each year to serve as an Associate Chair, to help guide research and develop best practices that can be demonstrated through pilot projects in local communities. Each Associate Chair will invite a public sector Partner to serve as a co-Chair, providing valuable and subject matter expertise for each of the core community emergency capabilities (CEC) categories.

* Regional and Annual meetings: CIPRR Associate Chairs and staff will come together at regional meetings around the country as well as an annual meeting in Washington, D.C. called the National Congress for Secure Communities where the delegates to the meeting will be briefed on the best practices developed by CIPRR and review the results of pilot demonstrations conducted with various cities and counties during the year. Discussions and planning will take place at the meetings to chart a course for the pilot projects during the subsequent year.

* Community Pilot program: Multiple times each year, CIPRR will participate in a joint demonstration of the best practices developed by the Associate Chairs. These pilots are public/private demonstrations of the concepts and best practices discussed and developed at regional meetings in conjunction with the state and federal partners. Communities such as Oakland County, Michigan, Hamilton County, Indiana, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Charleston, South Carolina and Galveston County, Texas are examples of communities interested in partnering to develop a particular aspect of community-leveraged preparedness that can serve as a template for other communities through the National Blueprint (see below).

*National Blueprint for Secure Communities: As best practices and public private partnerships are developed, CIPRR will work with the Kennedy School of Government/Leadership for a Networked World to develop case studies of these and collect them in the National Blueprint for Secure Communities, a living document that allows communities to share and study methods and ways to increase their own response capacity. CIPRR will be responsible for providing the subject content for the National Blueprint.

In addition to the Associate Chairs which provide guidance and experience, CIPRR will also recruit experts to help develop and guide the program development, being compensated for their direct expenses and a commensurate per diem for their time. CIPRR retains experts to maintain the programs and provides administrative and fundraising services, and a board of directors and officers who have specific experience in the financial, regulatory, governmental and public policy arenas, and who will provide the overall guidance and governance for the programs.

Corporations which sponsor the annual chairs make an annual gift to CIPRR, and each company covers their own expenses for travel, pilot demonstrations and contributions of technology and materials. Additionally, CIPRR charges a small fee for each of the regional and national events, the balance after expenses to be used to cover staff and development overhead.