The European Union is offering this webinar to representatives from microfinance institutions (MFI), who are interested in business continuity planning and management. This second session of the webinar series further explores concepts on business continuity solutions focusing on crisis and recovery management.

This session is part of the series on “Business Continuity Planning’’. The series will build up understanding of how to conduct an appropriate business continuity plan, what are the risks, and how to maintain the continuity of the ongoing processes and workflows. 

The second session in the series helps its participants to acknowledge and build up their understanding on how to integrate crisis and recovery management in their long term planning.

The speakers will cover a number of sub-topics:

• Business continuity solutions concepts, approach and framework
• Recovery strategies development and alternatives
• Crisis management framework
• Crisis response and recovery management
• Crisis communications planning
• Development of business continuity plans on prioritised basis
• Implementing alternative plans and measures

The webinar series of offered by the Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) strand of the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+) and attendance is free-of-charge.

All events in this webinar series

Here is an overview of all sessions from this webinar series:

• 6 February 2022 - Business Continuity Planning: Business Continuity Management (BCM) framework
• 16 March 2022 - Business Continuity Planning: Crisis management framework
• 13 April 2022 - Business Continuity Planning: Development of awareness and training program

European microfinance providers, either selected as EaSI Technical Assistance beneficiaries or interested in applying for the programme can contact easi.ta@fs.de to receive more information about this event, as well as to request the participation in or organisation of similar events.