The Risk and Systems Governance Group leads across government to ensure there is effective and proactive management of nationally significant risks and crises, and that effort is focused on building and strengthening New Zealand’s long-term prosperity and resilience.
New Zealand faces a range of complex hazards and threats with the potential to have serious, long-term effects on our national security, wellbeing and prosperity. We are particularly exposed to natural hazards, and the relative vulnerability of our people, property and critical infrastructure is growing. National security threats are also reaching New Zealanders more directly than ever before, from terrorist attacks, foreign interference, to cyber attacks on our critical national infrastructure.
The Risk and Systems Governance Group provides strategic oversight of New Zealand’s national resilience system to make sure government has the right systems and structures in place, and that these are working effectively to tackle these increasing complex challenges for the greatest long-term impact. This includes ensuring effective integration of agency roles across reduction, readiness, response and recovery.
Specifically, the Risk and Systems Governance Group:
- Leads the National Risk Framework, designed to drive informed and proactive prioritisation of resourcing and investment to advance New Zealand’s long-term prosperity and strengthen our resilience to the most significant hazards and threats we face. This includes ensuring there is effective governance of National Risks and relevant cross-cutting strategies, such as the National Security Strategy, within central government.
- Provides stewardship and leadership to the country's all-of-government strategic crisis management arrangements, strengthening agencies’ readiness capabilities, and enabling coordinated and effective responses to nationally significant crisis events.
The Risk and Systems Governance Group is led by an Executive Director.