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title: "1.6.8 IMO Handover Checklist"
slug: "168-imo-handover-checklist"
updated: 2025-08-20T20:26:54Z
published: 2025-08-20T20:26:54Z
canonical: "handbook.fscluster.org/168-imo-handover-checklist"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://handbook.fscluster.org/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# 1.6.8 IMO Handover Checklist

It is important that transitions between incoming and outgoing IMOs are smooth and that no information and/ or data is lost (please note we use Sharepoint to ensure that data is stored on the cloud and not on individual laptops, see Chapter [6.5: Sharepoint](https://handbook.fscluster.org/im/docs/65-sharepoint)).

Ideally an in-person handover will be undertaken, although this may not always be possible. Nevertheless, it is vital that a comprehensive handover note is always prepared and that the respective gFSC focal point is briefed/ updated. The content of the Handover Note will be specific to the operations. For example, during an emergency scale up the tasks will be quite different to a regular response. Please see [Emergency Onset Handover Note](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j56pD4hGnTknF1cakQg-gSliFN2fGxkL/view?usp=sharing), [FSC Ukraine Emergency scale up Handover Note](https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Lw1CSVMCYHNC-7ysGsvml03Qd5mQm8k/view?usp=sharing) as examples of Handover Notes developed to inform an incoming IMO during an emergency scale up/ sudden onset emergency.

The gFSC have developed a Handover [checklist](https://drive.google.com/file/d/14DJ1VbXoQciYl0yez59uZmDrVf913Qt8/view?usp=sharing) to be completed (by outgoing IMO) and reviewed (by incoming IMO). It is recommended that you refer to this checklist during your posting to ensure that all structures and requirements are prepared in advance.

***ToolBox***

- 1.4. [ToRs CC](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-xT8kYcezOJOGJJWHv0uYDFh4_t_mRyq/view?usp=sharing) and a summary in 1.5. [CC Handbook: Chapter 3.5.1](/cc/docs/351-cluster-coordinator-responsibilities-and-tasks)
- 1.6. [ToRs of IMO](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1To8rq6K1y6jUDMpO2MY_DcPASmLNR4CP/view?usp=sharing)
- 1.7. [One-pager: what to do in your first week of work as FSC IMO](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ol61V1vHLCnLFlgxSzWu5hyZC6SE-8cn/view?usp=sharing)
- 1.8. [License overview](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aH30qaPlQqp95lDjAD51Alv22bhSYpcQ/view?usp=sharing)
- 1.9.  [IMO tasks in context of cluster de-activation](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fqTKiGwh5RV4ACKiW4vH4XvrPWfeG36W/view?usp=sharing)
- 1.10. [IMO Handover Checklist](https://drive.google.com/file/d/14DJ1VbXoQciYl0yez59uZmDrVf913Qt8/view?usp=sharing) / [FSC Ethiopia Tigray example](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j56pD4hGnTknF1cakQg-gSliFN2fGxkL/view?usp=sharing) / [FSC Ukraine Emergency scale up Handover Note](https://drive.google.com/file/d/18Lw1CSVMCYHNC-7ysGsvml03Qd5mQm8k/view?usp=sharing)
- 1.11. gFSC IM Strategy
- 1.12. [Food Security Cluster Strategic Plan 202](https://fscluster.org/document/food-security-cluster-strategic-plan)3-2025
- 1.13. [FSC 5W Management](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cFyp6v4CFSk8VGksqxYtNxPu49IslIB1/view?usp=sharing)
- 1.14. [FSC Beneficiary counting methodology](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gftWoYuwVCfyqnwW5_Tf8i1JH5jyidJy/view).
- 1.15. Mapping IM Works:
  - [FSC Somalia example](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o_nOaX09lozXxaWD705kt2YUqa97pu4i/view?usp=sharing) (HR)
  - [FSC Somalia (workflow)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S1027YuMjUhdNoxs57JkVsz2_CGK5WwL/view?usp=sharing) [](https://wfp.sharepoint.com/:p:/s/fsc_global/Ee4MP9r5n_FFjsGbJxRavioB-uiwXJHd654lMyP4yHBE7w?e=TVTUfQ)
  - [FSC DRC (workflow)](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VKmqriq5Dnrf9Yhgn9lxZggXFHLcy4ER/view?usp=sharing)

Information Management Officer

Global Food Security Cluster