Scenario-Based Planning in the JMICC
Having a systematically structured catalogue of potential scenarios of accidents, incidents, emergencies or otherwise significant events that could happen in Puntland would allow:
- Providing support to local authorities when confronted with high impact events, issues or crisis plans preparedness in Puntland.
- Practice and rehearse skills within the JMICC; and understand other actor perspectives, responsibilities, limitations et cetera in relation to the scenario.
- Support the JMICC’s planning and testing of key decisions and their underlying assumptions; or the prevailing important challenges within Puntland.
- The JMICC to explore its potential future and get a better understanding of the unknowns or uncertainties.
- Formulation of organisational adjustments towards JMICC 2.0.
It provides an excellent training opportunity for the collective JMICC staff. All training is about making the staff better at what it already knows, but also about understanding ‘itself’ and making ‘itself’ better. Exercising with Puntland authorities (and regional actors and reporting centres) would tremendously accelerate collective and shared understanding and imagination (visualising the scenario in all its ‘physical facets’; understand and catalogue the collaborative actors that need to be involved; learn ‘adversarial thinking’ (meaning that despite the best intentions and planning that not everything will go according to the plan); and learning from mistakes or similar scenarios in other locations.
Scenario Templates can be made available to the appropriate authorities on request. Such requests should be directed to the Director JMICC director@jmicc.so