Plain-language continuity guides
Openly shared templates that help a small institution identify its most critical activities and dependencies.
Programme concept
Resilience & Continuity
Helping schools, community organisations and essential local institutions keep serving people through outages, climate events and everyday disruption.
Current stage: Concept & collaboration design
The idea
Why this programme.
Disruption is rarely dramatic. More often it is a week-long power cut, a flooded road, a connectivity failure, or a key person falling ill. Large organisations tend to have continuity plans; the school, the clinic and the community centre often do not.
This programme concept explores practical, low-cost ways for smaller institutions to understand what matters most to the people they serve and how to keep it going when things go wrong.
Components
What it could include.
Facilitated workshops
Short, guided sessions where staff and community members walk through realistic disruption scenarios together.
Learning from practice
Documenting what helped and what did not after real disruptions, so others can benefit.
Illustrative use cases
Where it could help.
- 01
Schools during prolonged outages
How can learning continue when power, connectivity or transport fail for days rather than hours?
- 02
Community organisations during climate events
How can food banks, shelters and support groups keep reaching people during floods or heatwaves?
- 03
Essential local services
How can small clinics, local offices and service desks protect the few things people cannot go without?
Questions under exploration
What we want to understand.
- Which continuity practices are realistic for organisations with no dedicated staff or budget?
- How do communities themselves define 'essential' during a disruption?
- What can be learned from organisations that coped well with past disruptions?
Pilot
A possible pilot.
Proposed only. The final shape would be co-designed with participants.
- 1.Work with a small number of willing institutions to map their most critical activities.
- 2.Co-develop a simple continuity plan and test it through a tabletop exercise.
- 3.Revisit after several months to see what was used, ignored or changed.
- 4.Publish an open learning note and refine the guides.
What would be measured
- — Whether participating institutions can name their critical activities and dependencies
- — Time to resume essential services in exercises, before and after
- — Confidence reported by staff and community members
- — Uptake and adaptation of the open guides by others
Who might collaborate
- — School leaders and community organisation coordinators
- — Continuity, emergency management and resilience practitioners
- — Researchers studying climate adaptation and social resilience
- — Local institutions willing to share honest experience
No collaborators are confirmed. These describe the kinds of people we hope to talk with.
Help shape Resilience & Continuity.
Cralgo Foundation is being designed in the open. If the questions here resonate, we would value your perspective.
Ways to collaborate