Principles for Resilient Infrastructure &

Stress Testing of Critical Infrastructure

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7 Infrastructure Sectors

Power & Telecommunication

Electricity s

Oil & Gas Transport

Water,
Wastewater &
Education Drainage
Health

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 Infrastructure Disruptions in 2022

▪ Transport: Partial or complete closures to

major roadways- North Coast Road,
Manzanilla- Mayaro Road, Uriah Butler
Highway
▪ Telecommunications: Frequent service
disruptions
▪ Electricity: August 2022 30% of customers
without an electricity supply due to a
landslide at Rousillac after a 12-hour
nationwide disruption in February
▪ Oil and Gas: June 2022 spill of 240 barrels
of oil into watercourses at Gower’s Well
Road
▪ Water: October 2022 30 surface water
treatment facilities either shutdown or
reduced production
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Infrastructure Resilience in Global Agreements

Sendai Framework Target D

Substantially reduce disaster damage to critical infrastructure
and disruption of basic services, among them health and
educational facilities, including through developing their
resilience by 2030.

SDG 9 Build resilient infrastructure,

promote inclusive and sustainable
industrialization and foster innovation

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resilient-infrastructure

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Net Resilience Gain approach

Net Resilience Gain is a long-term collaborative commitment to both

(a) avoid systemic resilience loss; and (b) to enhance systemic
resilience
Systemic Resilience is a property of an infrastructure system that arises
dynamically when the national infrastructure is organised in a such a way
that it can provide agreed critical services despite hazards and other
interruptions.

Any interventions in infrastructure must be

resilient!

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The Six Principles for Infrastructure Resilience

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6 Principles and Goals

➢ (P1) Continuously Learning - develop and update understanding

and insight into infrastructure resilience
➢ (P2) Proactively protected - proactively plan, design, build and
operate infrastructures that are prepared for current and future
hazards.
➢ (P3) Environmentally Integrated - work in a positively integrated
way with the natural environment

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6 Principles and Goals

➢ (P4) Socially Engaged - develop active engagement, involvement,

and participation across all levels of society
➢ (P5) Shared responsibility - share information and expertise for
coordinated benefits
➢ (P6) Adaptively transforming - adapt and transform to changing
needs

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(P1) Continuously Learning
The goal to develop and update understanding and insight into infrastructure resilience

P1.1 Expose and validate Net Resilience Gains

• Improve understanding of the
assumptions potential threats
P1.2 Monitor and intervene • Trigger early warning and impact
appropriately assessment for decision making
P1.3 Analyse, learn, and • Discover strategies for better
resilience and recovery
formulate improvements • Perform drills to stress test
P1.4 Conduct stress tests infrastructure and establish good
practice

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 The Process

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The Process

Data Collection: Qualitative and Quantitative- Risk, Disaster Management, Infrastructure

Governance: December- March

Project Introduction, Stress Test Phase 1: March- April

Stress Test Phase 2: May

Recommendations and KPIs: June

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 What is the Stress Test?
A tiered approach for assessing the risks to infrastructure and the
current state of resilience:

Subject Matter
Experts

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Stress Test- Tier 1 Critical Functions

Steps:
a. Score the importance of
economic sectors
b. Score the criticality of the
risks
c. Assess the importance of
infrastructure functions to the
economic sectors Critical Risks
d. Assess the connections
between critical functions and
the risks

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 Stress Test- Tier 2 Resilience Matrix
Steps:
a. Score the strength of the
connections between the critical
functions
b. Find connections between the
risks
c. Recalculation of critical
functions and risks (taking into
Resilience Matrix
account cascading)
d. Identify KPIs for assessing a
function’s ability to absorb,
prepare and adapt
e. Score each domain (and its
elements) of a function against
each risk
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Stress test
Stress Testing critical infrastructure can support decision makers in:

▪ Base policy decisions and investments on factual and up-to-date information on the
status of resilience of infrastructure systems;

▪ Identify threats and vulnerabilities and gain insights regarding the performance
of critical infrastructure against various stressors;

▪ Better understand the interlinkages between infrastructure systems and

networks (e.g. water -> energy);

▪ Prioritize investments and actions in the face of tight budgets.

▪ National Level analysis of Infrastructure Resilience

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Next Steps (April)

▪ Data Collection Requests and Follow Up

▪ Further Information on the Stress Test
▪ Stress Test Tier 1 Workshops (after Easter)
▪ Preparation of the Stress Test Tier 1 Findings Report

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Implementation of the Principles will allow

❖ Making sure everything we do in terms of infrastructure

includes resilience – net resilience gain
❖ Resilience being mainstreamed and embedded in policy
and regulations
❖ Contributions to positive social, economic and
environmental outcomes
❖ Greater continuity of services, and reduced inconvenience,
disruptions and outages
❖ Prioritising of resources
The Current State

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The Current State

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