New Zealand faces a number of serious hazards and national security threats – National Risks – that could have serious immediate and/or long-term effects on our safety, prosperity and/or national security, requiring national-level intervention and coordination.
The National Risk and Resilience Framework, agreed by Cabinet, is a strategic and proactive framework used across government to strengthen New Zealand’s resilience to National Risks.
It outlines the actions taken at the national level to proactively build resilience to National Risks across the ‘4Rs’ of risk management activity: reduction, readiness, response and recovery.
Through these actions, we are better able to anticipate, prepare for and manage National Risks; preventing them where we can, and reducing their potential likelihood, consequences and cost where we cannot.
The National Risk and Resilience Framework is used to provide assurance to key decision makers that risks are being actively managed, and that significant risk management gaps or opportunities to build resilience are acted upon.
The Framework identifies 33 National Risks across five broad categories:
- natural hazards
- biological hazards
- technological hazards
- malicious threats
- economic crisis.
Click here to read more about New Zealand's National Risks.
DPMC's Risk and Systems Governance Group lead the delivery of the National Risk and Resilience Framework across government.