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The PRI charter

Defining operational resilience
for Asia-Pacific.

The founding charter of the Pacific Resilience Institute — our purpose, vision, mission, and the principles that guide the discipline across the region.

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Purpose

The Pacific Resilience Institute exists to advance operational resilience across Asia-Pacific, ensuring the continuity of critical operations, strengthening interconnected systems, and enhancing the resilience of the region as a whole.

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Vision

To establish Asia-Pacific as a globally leading region in operational resilience, defined by high standards of practice, regionally relevant frameworks, and world-class resilience professionals.

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Mission

We advance operational resilience across APAC by:

  • Raising the standard of practice across industries and sectors
  • Developing frameworks aligned to the unique risks, operating environments, and regulatory expectations of Asia-Pacific
  • Building capability at the operational level, where resilience is realised
  • Establishing and supporting a community of world-class operational resilience professionals
  • Enabling the continuity of critical operations across interconnected systems
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Foundational Principle

Strengthening operational resilience at the foundational level creates a ripple effect across interconnected systems, supporting the continuity of critical services and enhancing resilience across the Asia-Pacific region. Operational resilience begins with people and organisations, but its impact extends beyond them — shaping the resilience of sectors, economies, and the region.

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Core Position

Operational resilience in Asia-Pacific must be:

  • Regionally grounded
  • Reflective of local risk environments, infrastructure conditions, and supply chain realities
  • Aligned to regional regulatory frameworks and expectations
  • Not solely derived from or dependent on Western models or assumptions

PRI recognises that Asia-Pacific requires its own contextualised approach to operational resilience.

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Guiding Principles

6.1 APAC-Centric Resilience

Operational resilience practices must reflect the unique conditions of Asia-Pacific, including:

  • climate exposure
  • supply chain concentration
  • infrastructure variability
  • regulatory diversity

6.2 Raising the Standard of Practice

Operational resilience must evolve beyond compliance into a disciplined, high-standard professional practice, characterised by:

  • consistency
  • execution capability
  • measurable outcomes

6.3 World-Class Professional Capability

The resilience of systems depends on the capability of practitioners. PRI is committed to developing recognised, highly capable operational resilience professionals who can design, implement, test, and continuously improve resilience practices.

6.4 Continuity of Critical Operations

The primary objective of operational resilience is to ensure critical operations continue to function through disruption.

6.5 Interconnected Systems

Resilience in APAC must account for:

  • cross-border dependencies
  • sector interconnectivity
  • cascading failure risks

6.6 Risk-Informed, Execution-Focused

Risk management identifies threats. Operational resilience ensures survivability. Resilience is defined not by awareness, but by the ability to operate under stress.

6.7 Adaptation and Preparedness

In a region exposed to increasing volatility, resilience must prioritise adaptation over prediction, and focus on preparedness for disruption.

6.8 Continuous Evolution

Operational resilience must evolve with:

  • emerging risks
  • regulatory change
  • technological advancement
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Scope of Practice

PRI advances operational resilience across:

  • Critical operations identification and tolerance setting
  • Business continuity and operational recovery
  • Scenario design and disruption testing
  • Supply chain and third-party resilience
  • Cyber and technology resilience
  • Crisis and incident management
  • Climate and environmental disruption as operational risk drivers
  • Cross-sector and cross-border resilience considerations
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Professional Development and Recognition

PRI is committed to:

  • Establishing recognised professional standards and pathways in operational resilience
  • Developing and accrediting world-class practitioners
  • Supporting continuous professional development across the region
  • Promoting operational resilience as a recognised and respected discipline
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Commitment to the Region

The Pacific Resilience Institute commits to:

  • Elevating operational resilience from compliance to capability
  • Strengthening the continuity of critical services across APAC
  • Supporting alignment with regional regulatory expectations
  • Driving collaboration across industries, sectors, and jurisdictions
  • Contributing to the resilience of economies, infrastructure, and communities
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Regional Impact

Operational resilience is built at the operational level but realised at scale. By strengthening resilience across practices, systems, and professionals, PRI contributes to:

  • sustained critical services
  • reduced systemic disruption
  • improved recovery across sectors
  • enhanced regional stability
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Statement of Intent

The Pacific Resilience Institute exists to define, elevate, and advance operational resilience across Asia-Pacific — building a regionally grounded, world-class discipline that strengthens organisations, systems, and the region as a whole.

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