Airlink’s Regional Response Framework provides the foundation for its unique convening and coordinating function across more than 100 nonprofit partners and 40 aviation partners. While disasters can and do occur anywhere, certain areas of the world remain more vulnerable than others. The Regional Response Framework comprises six regional response plans, focused on increasing preparedness to respond in high-risk countries within each region: Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia Pacific, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Middle East and North Africa, and Europe. Through consistent engagement during non-disaster periods, the regional response plans build collective capacity to respond in the event of an emergency, by establishing in advance a common understanding of the air transportation and response resources available.

Airlink also is committed to building collective response capacity via a range of logistics preparedness resources and events, for example:

• Logistics Preparedness Workshops: Airlink is currently facilitating a series of regional workshops bringing together nonprofit and aviation partners to identify and address lessons learned from past responses. 
• Logistics Preparedness Guidance Note: This ten-step guide for nonprofits sending humanitarian aid supplies in emergencies helps organizations understand how best to prepare for cargo transportation in advance of an emergency.

Alongside initiatives that build collective emergency response capacity, Airlink also supports partner efforts to build their own organizational capacity. Free and discounted air transportation certainly enables nonprofit partners to invest a greater proportion of their limited resources into their programs. Airlink is also on-hand to support nonprofit partners with preparedness initiatives, such as pre-positioning of supplies and community training and education programs, which significantly increase the capacity to respond to an emergency at a local level. Meanwhile, Airlink’s humanitarian and logistics expertise helps aviation partners to identify how their corporate social responsibility vision and resources can be allocated for maximum impact following an emergency.