Source: UNISDR Disaster Risk Reduction
What is the ReMA Tool?
Developed by UNDRR and the Corporate Chief Resilience Officers (CCRO) network, the Resilience Maturity Assessment (ReMA) tool provides a comprehensive self-assessment framework designed to evaluate and enhance your organization’s capacity to withstand disruptions and adapt to change.
Whether you are a micro enterprise, a small business, or a global corporation, ReMA tool equips you with the insights needed to measure, improve, and disclose your resilience.
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Why is enterprise resilience important?
In an age of increasing uncertainty, organizations across all sectors face new and unforeseen challenges that are becoming business as usual. These challenges can stem from climate change, cyber-crime, fraud, AI advancements, or other sources of disruption that could be transformational or reputational.
Resilience is vital for any enterprise to survive and thrive in a complex and volatile environment. This ability to adapt and grow amid challenges is not only beneficial for the enterprises themselves, but also extends to impact all their stakeholders and surrounding communities.
The 4 resilience maturity levels
The four levels represent stages of resilience maturity, serving as convenient boundaries to categorize progress.
However, it’s important to recognize that resilience maturity is fundamentally subjective. You may find your organization performing well in some areas while needing improvement in others. The maturity level you aim for may also vary depending on your organization’s size, complexity, and priorities. Although Levels 1 to 4 are distinct categories, it’s more accurate to view resilience as a continuous spectrum.
The model allows you to benchmark your own maturity against certain criteria. This generates a benchmark band which you should strive to achieve.
The ReMA tool uses six operational pillars that are recurrent in resilience practices to assess enterprise maturity.
“Business, professional associations and private sector financial institutions, including financial regulators and accounting bodies, as well as philanthropic foundations, to integrate disaster risk management, including business continuity, into business models and practices through disaster-risk-informed investments, especially in micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (p. 23).”
– Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030