Resilience and Preparedness
Background and objectives
Background
Significant events over the last few years have included a pandemic, energy crisis, rapid inflation and interest rate rises, and geopolitical conflicts. The scale and variety of the risks which governments have to deal with in managing public sector spending are challenging.
The nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and its global impact were without precedent in recent history. We have learnt from our work on the COVID-19 project group that most governments were not fully prepared for the challenges they faced. We have also seen that there are local and global events that arrive without warning and require government intervention. The nature of these events could be economic, health-related, environmental, natural disasters, or caused by terrorism or war. Governments can be ill-prepared for such events or are not able to respond in an efficient way that represents good value for money.
Resilience is the ability to prevent, adapt and respond to, recover, and learn from crises or disruptions to the system, and/or absorb shocks without causing widescale instability. Resilience for a government is its ability to cope with competing internal and external pressures, and withstand, adapt to, and recover from severe crises or systemic shocks whilst continuing to deliver essential public services. It’s not easy for governments to provide resources to improving resilience to uncertain risks when there are many immediate demands on that money.
Objectives
The objectives for this project group are to:
- Facilitate the sharing of approaches to auditing government preparedness. Considering how governments identify and manage risks; how they prepare a response to specific or unspecified negative events; how they monitor and evaluate lessons learned and respond to these lessons.
- Sharing approaches to auditing how well government have responded to actual negative events and how they have applied the lessons learned. Sharing approaches could take several forms, including workshops, bilateral or multilateral meetings, giving presentations or sharing reports.
- Design a framework to allow SAIs to be able to audit resilience and preparedness, exploring potential audit criteria, indicators of resilience and preparedness and audit tools and procedures that SAIs can use in their work.
- Identify and share emerging risks to governments in Europe.
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