Roads to Resilience

4.  Leadership and Governance

The intention is to ensure leadership and governance arrangements based on (1) an established, proactive, relevant and dynamic resilience agenda for the organisation; and (2) adequate risk governance protocols, procedures and reports, including arrangements for responding to whistle-blowing and the reporting of near-miss incidents. • establish resilience agenda: establish a resilience agenda supported by a board mandate that requires internal and external training for all stakeholders, including top management and non-executive directors to ensure understanding of the dynamic nature of organisational resilience Resilience action points • ensure risk governance: create an appropriate and proportionate version of the ‘three lines of defence’ governance model with supportive relationships throughout, including proactive arrangements for receiving risk information,

including near-miss and internal whistle- blowing reports, as sources of assurance

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Section 8: Implications for Board Members