Best Practices Guideline: Risk-informed Decision Making and SMEs Capacity Building
| Published Date | July 2023 |
|---|---|
| Type of Publication | Manuals |
| Publication Under | SOM Steering Committee on Economic and Technical Cooperation (SCE), Emergency Preparedness Working Group (EPWG) |
| Accessed | 810 |
| Pages | 57 |
| Download publication | Download |
Description
With an overarching goal of providing guidance and suggestions for decision makers, practitioners and SMEs in APEC community about integrating a risk-smart philosophy into the post-COVID-19 business practices, this document discusses: first, risk-informed decision making at government/ strategic/ decision makers level to support industries including SMEs to build resilience against future risks and promote their sustainability in the post-pandemic era; second, resilience capacity building at SME level to strengthen supply chain, improve risk management, and raise awareness for risk-smart business. It reviews disaster risk issues in APEC and disaster resilience issues for SMEs to propose two kinds of frameworks for decision-makers in governments and SMEs, respectively Risk-informed Decision Making Framework for Resilience (RIDMFR) and Capacity Building Framework for SMEs Disaster Resilience Building. With this, this document tries to provide reference on supporting SMEs resilience building and risk-smart business at government, technical and business community level especially in the post-pandemic era.