This Comprehensive Preparedness Guide, CPG 101, expands on the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA’s) efforts to provide guidance about response and recovery planning to State, Territorial, Tribal, and Local governments. It also extends those planning concepts into the prevention and protection mission areas. This Guide provides emergency and homeland security managers and other emergency services personnel with FEMA’s recommendations on how to address the entire planning process — from forming a planning team, through writing and maintaining the plan, to executing the plan.