Analytical tools: Methods used to process and interpret information during an evaluation.
Benchmark: Reference point or standard against which performance or achievements can be assessed. Note: A benchmark refers to the performance that has been achieved in the recent past by other comparable organisations, or what can be reasonably inferred to have been achieved in the circumstances.
Centre of Government: Body or group of bodies that provide direct support and advice to the Head of Government and the Council of Ministers.
Governance: The exercise of political, economic and administrative authority.
Resilience: Resilience is most often defined as the ability of individuals, communities and states and their institutions to absorb and recover from shocks, whilst positively adapting and transforming their structures and means for living in the face of long-term changes and uncertainty.
Critical Risks: Threats and hazards that pose the most strategically significant risk, as a result of (i) their probability or likelihood and of (ii) the national significance of their disruptive consequences, including sudden onset events (e.g. earthquakes, industrial accidents, terrorist attacks), gradual onset events (e.g. pandemics), and steady-state risks (notably those related to illicit trade or organised crime). (OECD, 2023[1])
Emerging Critical Risks: Are those critical risks that are either new risks or familiar risks that are evolving due to new or unfamiliar conditions. (OECD, 2024[2])