19-20 June 2013
Geneva
The focus of this year’s workshop was on building multi-disciplinary expertise to support crisis management in fields such as early warning systems and situation analysis. It follows on the first OECD Workshop on Strategic Crisis Management held in June 2012, organised jointly by the OECD and the Swiss Federal Crisis Management Training (CMT) of the Swiss Federal Chancellery.
Participants discussed how to better integrate such tools and systems into the decision-making process during a crisis and other emergency situations that require the harnessing of multi-disciplinary expertise through inter-agency and inter-sectoral co-ordination.
The issues addressed in this second workshop are identified as part of the cross-cutting governance issues that crisis management policies and practices need to consider, including national frameworks for managing both classic and novel crises, and the need for co-ordinating multidisciplinary expertise for Early Warning Systems and crisis sense-making.
Mr. André Simonazzi, (Vice-Chancellor, Swiss Confederation) and Mr. Rolf Alter (Director, Public Governance and Territorial Development, OECD) provided introductory remarks focusing on the importance for governments to develop new foresight capacities to help detect signals, as well as prepare for the unknown and the so-called "Black Swan" events.
The workshop helped to identify good practices across OECD countries as well as strengthen collaborative relationships amongst crisis managers.
The workshop brought together 50 crisis managers and practitioners from 15 OECD governments, industry and leading think-tanks to share strategic insights and cutting-edge policy responses, drawing on the expertise of the members of the OECD High Level Risk Forum.
For more information on the workshop please contact Charles Baubion ([email protected]).
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