Global programme
The global programme is the layer of Nexus Consortiums that the Consortium Secretariat coordinates: shared research priorities, common methods, the annual cycle, learning across countries and the publication programme. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) serves as Secretariat through GCRI Canada, working with The Global Risks Forum (GRF) and The Global Risks Alliance (GRA). The global layer never sets a national agenda. It makes national work comparable, so that countries can learn from each other while keeping their own data and decisions. Return to How Nexus Consortium works.
- 01InstitutionThe Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
- 02Service levelR0: information and enquiries
- 03In briefThe short answer
- 04AgendaHow the annual agenda is formed
- 05PrioritiesCriteria for choosing what to work on
- 06Shared methodsCommon ground that makes countries comparable
- 07Key termsTerms used on this page
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The short answer.
The global programme is the layer of Nexus Consortiums that the Consortium Secretariat coordinates: shared research priorities, common methods, the annual cycle, learning across countries and the publication programme. GCRI serves as Secretariat through GCRI Canada with GRF and GRA, and the global layer never sets a country's agenda or moves its data.
Systemic exposure in East Africa.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, shown for East Africa as an example geography for this subject.
How the annual agenda is formed.
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National questions
National Desks collect material questions, capability gaps and candidate missions.
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Regional dependencies
Regional coordination identifies shared basins, grids, health systems, ports, corridors and digital links. See Six programme regions.
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Evidence review
GCRI's evidence process classifies what is observed, unknown, modelled and worth testing.
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Participation and readiness
GRF tests inclusion and public-purpose legitimacy; GRA identifies financial transmission and diligence needs without selecting investments.
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Mandate
An authorized annual mandate sets scope, budget, participating structures, evaluation questions and publication intentions. National structures may decline participation or data sharing.
Criteria for choosing what to work on.
A candidate question enters the annual mandate only when it scores well across all of these criteria. A question without a competent recipient, an institution able to act on the answer, is held back however interesting it is.
- Materiality and national demand
- Cross-system dependence and evidence gaps
- Tractability and capability value
- Safeguards and resource feasibility
- A competent recipient for the result
Terms used on this page.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Priority-setting exercise | A structured process that ranks research questions, often with the participation of users and affected communities. |
| Country ownership | The principle that a country leads its own development policies and strategies and coordinates the actions that support them, set out in the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness. |
| Subsidiarity | The principle that a decision is taken at the lowest level able to take it well, with a higher level acting only where the objective cannot be achieved closer to the people concerned; the Treaty on European Union states it. |
| Nexus cycle | The eight-step loop by which work moves in every Nexus field: question, evidence, build, organize, test, publish, decide and renew, each step with a named owner. |
Federation without loss of control.
Cross-border work creates no treaty, customs arrangement, sovereignty transfer or right to move data. Engagement follows the sanctions and eligibility policy of Nexus Foundry, and quarterly evidence and annual results revise the mandate through a recorded change process. The programme's cycle is described on Annual programme cycle, and GRF's view of the same consortium on its Nexus Consortium relationship page.
Questions and answers.
Does the global programme decide national priorities?
Is there one global risk index?
How are lessons shared between countries?
How can an institution contribute to the global agenda?
Around GCRI.
Start with an enquiry.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.