Establish a Government Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and an associated unit to address these challenges: limited centralised oversight of or support for departmental risk planners; no central accountability mechanism to ensure that departments draw up adequate plans to address risks; no pool of expertise available to assist departments in developing highquality risk plans; civil servants, across all levels, need to have skills and incentives to understand and work with risk and uncertainty; greater expenditure on preparedness is needed.
