Five Steps to Assess Risk Within Your Organization

Read our steps for successful risk assessment below. TRACE members can download our mini guide, How to Conduct an Effective Corruption Risk Assessment, and a wealth of other materials in our Resource Center.

1. Gather input data across the organization and from relevant third parties. Review compliance incidents, hotline reports, and enforcement and media trends.
2. Analyze and quantify risks. TRACE provides several numerical formulas and heat mapping exercises in the white paper A Guide to Corruption Risk Assessment and Risk Mapping, available only to TRACE members.
3. Document all identified risks, either separately or in a risk register. TRACE’s risk assessment tool, available to members next week, will streamline the recordkeeping process.
4. Create a risk management action plan to adequately address risks based on their priority.
5. Calibrate and reevaluate—because even the best risk assessment action plans require ongoing monitoring and evaluation.

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