Our intention is to help decision-makers, particularly policy-makers to anticipate and understand emerging risks, as well as the risk governance options, before they become urgent policy priorities. Our strategy is proactive. We identify issues with risk governance deficits and develop recommendations for improving their assessment, evaluation, communication and management.
Our core process
- Identifying potential risk issues at the earliest possible stage
- 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
Our values
Within its mission to improve global risk governance, IRGC is rooted in the principles of good governance and is:
- Open: project outcome is shared freely
- Accountable: science-based project work and recommendations are scrutinised via peer review before publication
- Collaborative: this lies at the heart of our approach and integrated working is vital
- Independent: this allows us to freely choose the subjects on which to focus, select experts and partner organisations with whom to collaborate, and design the appropriate governance recommendations to deal with the risks we address
