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With the appointment of Herman Achille van Rompuy as our new President of the European Council, we entered a new era. His second name promises a lot. It was “easily” done on a Thursday evening in Brussels the 19th of November. It was a rainy day, but with a very special feeling. The news rushed [...]
By Marinus de Pooter and Cees Visser, Executive Director and respectively Partner of Ernst & Young Risk Services.
Organisations benefit from high-quality reporting about risk management. Stakeholders greatly appreciate receiving information about risks and about the way in which an organisation is managing these risks. Another benefit is that clear reporting forces the board to take [...]
PRIMO-seminar on climate change and risk leadership October 23rd 2009
The Copenhagen Summit on climate change is just around the corner. On December 7th 2009, Denmark will be the centre of attention in the global challenge of trying to offer response to the numerous questions that arise due to our changing climate. Complex questions that calls [...]
“Fostering the international dialogue and exchange of information and best practices in risk, emergency and disaster management…”
It sounds easy.
Is it?
How about different personalities, priorities, interests, semantics, terminology, jurisdictions, disciplines, cultures and language barriers?
By Eelco Dykstra
As a visiting professor of International Emergency Management first at the University of Kuopio in Finland and then in [...]
Award winner of the PRIMO Europe Strategic Risk Management Award 2009
Partnership working and building relationships to improve the future is now fundamental in public service delivery. ‘One Darlington: Perfectly Placed’, Darlington’s Sustainable Community Strategy sets out a vision for Darlington, with partnership working key to its delivery. However, partnership working involves risks as well [...]
The position of municipal and provincial authorities (hereinafter local governments) in society at large is rather complex. This complexity is especially visible in the number of relationships maintained by local governments. For example, the many parties involved in project development. The complexity is also due to the additional tasks and innovations imposed on local governments [...]
Roosendaal is a midsized town in the south of the Netherlands with a population of around 78,000 inhabitants, located between Rotterdam and Antwerp, Belgium. Almost three years ago the Municipality decided to improve its risk management practice.
According to Dick Maaskant, Business Controller of the municipality, this decision was influenced by several internal and external [...]
For an effective strategy in risk management it is important to understand the context in which authorities are operating. To shed a light on this context, PRIMO Europe is doing an intercultural case study on risk management in two European countries – the Netherlands and France. By Jossy Res
Risks don’t stay within the borders of [...]
Johan Debyser is Cabinet governor of West Flanders. An interview on 9 juli 2009 by Marieke de Kort & Karl Vanderplaetse
What is Risk Management?
Often, risk management is perceived as emergency planning and fighting disasters. One of the greatest risks facing society at this moment is, of course, the financial crisis. However, we are also facing [...]
This a driving forces for increased focus on risk management in public sector. Conclusions of our survey.
A survey of over 200 public entity organisations across has found that the need to deal with catastrophic and project risks is driving an increased focus on risk management by public entities. Over half the respondents to the survey, [...]
