Within its mission to improve global risk governance, IRGC focuses on emerging and re-emerging risks. Our express intention is to help decision makers, particularly governments, to anticipate and understand them and the risk governance options before they become urgent policy priorities. Our work is therefore deliberately agenda-setting in nature.
Our strategy is proactive. We identify the risks we will address and design projects which generate appropriate risk governance recommendations. These are communicated to policy makers at an early stage in the evolution of policy.
Our core process comprises :
Identifying potential risk issues at the earliest possible time.
Understanding the issue and the associated risks as well as the institutions and risk governance structures and processes that are currently in place for assessing and managing the risks.
Identifying governance gaps which appear to hinder the efficacy of the existing risk governance structures and processes.
Making recommendations for overcoming these gaps.
Everything we do is rooted in the principles of good governance, so we are :
Open, and share our recommendations freely.
Accountable : all of our recommendations are scrutinised via a robust round of peer review before publication.
Collaborative : this lies at the heart of our approach. No one sector has all the answers, so integrated working is vital.
Our independence is of crucial importance. It allows us to think freely in choosing the subjects on which to focus, in selecting experts and partner organisations with whom to collaborate, and in designing the governance recommendations which we believe are appropriate to dealing with the risks we address.