At some stage in any emergency there will be a call from OCHA to contribute to a contingency plan based on different scenarios.  Equally, there is mileage in the Cluster having its own contingency discussions and tracking closely what is available in country, in the pipeline and partner plans.

• 3Ei: IASC 2015 - Emergency Response Preparedness (ERP) package. The ERP replaces the ‘Inter-Agency Contingency Planning Guidelines for Humanitarian Assistance’ as developed in 2001 and updated in 2007. The package provides practical guidance to assist Resident/Humanitarian Coordinators and humanitarian country teams in preparing to respond to potential emergencies with appropriate humanitarian assistance and protection. Although not specifically aimed at Cluster level planning, it does provide useful background reading on Minimum Packages, Risk Analysis and Monitoring.
• 3Eii: Yemen 2017 - Contingency Plan Summary for Conflict Escalation in Al Hudaydah. Prepared by the HCT, a good example of the output from a joint contingency planning exercise. Role of Shelter / NFI mentioned in main text and then in detail on page 14 onwards.
• 3Eiii: Ukraine 2017 - Scenario Development based on Current Situation and Lessons Learned from 2 years of Humanitarian Shelter Response in Ukraine. Cluster produced guidance to tackle context where the conflict would go into long periods of lull and then flare up. Standard indicators to measure the pace of conflict and therefore guide the response.
• 3Eiv: Iraq 2016/7 – Contingency Planning Tools. Developed for the Mosul response including, stock overview comms, key messages on stock, partner stock sheet and stock map. Key here is to capture the stock levels from the partners and ensure that this information is clearly and concisely communicated to all parties so there are ‘no surprises’ in the event there is sudden high need and that the donors understand where they need to invest.