Risk management is the process of identifying, analyzing, and mitigating risks. It involves establishing the context, identifying risks, analyzing their potential impact, evaluating them against risk criteria, treating risks by developing plans to address high priority risks, and then monitoring risks over time as circumstances change. The goal is to balance risks with potential rewards and manage uncertainty. Risk management is widely used in both public and private sectors across finance, insurance, healthcare, government, and other industries and organizations to help achieve objectives and dreams despite risks.

1. Risk Management
“Life is all about taking risks. If you
never take a risk, you will never
achieve your dreams”

2. What is risk?
• A Risk is:
“An uncertain event,activity, or situation
that can have a positive or a negative on any
objective”

3. Opportunity:
• Positive risk is called opportunities.
• You would like to take maximum advantage of
these positive risks.
Why take risk?
• There is a balance between risk and rewards.

4. What is Risk Management?
• In the financial world, risk management is the
process of identification, analysis and
acceptance or mitigation of uncertainty in
investment decisions.

5. Who uses Risk Management?
Risk Management practices are widely used in
public and the private sectors, covering a wide
range of activities or operations.
• Finance and Investment
• Insurance
• Health Care
• Public Institutions
• Governments

6. What we do in risk management?
• Establish the context
• Identify the risks
• Analyse the risks
• Evaluate the risks
• Treat the risks

7. ESTABLISH THE CONTEXT
Provides a five-step process to assist
with establishing the context within
which risk will be identified.
1-Establish the internal context
2-Establish the external context
3-Establish the risk management
context
4- Develop risk criteria
5- Define the structure for risk analysis

8. IDENTIFY THE RISKS
• Risk cannot be managed unless
it is first identified. Once the
context of the business has
been defined, the next step is
to utilize the information to
identify as many risks as
possible.

9. ANALYZE THE RISKS
• During the risk identification
step, a business owner may
have identified many risks and
it is often not possible to try to
address all those identified.
• The risk analysis step will assist
in determining which risks
have a greater consequence or
impact than others.

10. EVALUATE THE RISKS
• Risk evaluation involves comparing the
level of risk found during the analysis
process with previously established risk
criteria, and deciding whether these
risks require treatment.
• The result of a risk evaluation is a
prioritized list of risks that require
further action.
• This step is about deciding whether risks
are acceptable or need treatment.

11. TREAT THE RISKS
Develop and implement a plan with specific counter-measures to
address the identified risks.
Consider:
• Priorities (Strategic and operational)
• Resources (human, financial and technical)
• Risk acceptance, (i.e., low risks)
Document your risk management plan and describe the reasons
behind selecting the risk and for the treatment chosen.
Record allocated responsibilities, monitoring or evaluation
processes, and assumptions on residual risk.

12. MONITOR AND REVIEW
• Monitor and review is an essential
and integral step in the risk
management process.
• A business owner must monitor
risks and review the effectiveness
of the treatment plan, strategies
and management system that have
been set up to effectively manage
risk.

13. • Risks need to be monitored periodically to ensure
changing circumstances do not alter the risk
priorities. Very few risks will remain static, therefore
the risk management process needs to be regularly
repeated, so that new risks are captured in the
process and effectively managed.
• A risk management plan at a business level should be
reviewed at least on an annual basis. An effective
way to ensure that this occurs is to combine risk
planning or risk review with annual business
planning.