National Nexus
National Nexus is the complete country operating programme of Nexus Consortiums: nationally owned, technically supported and comparable across borders. It is designed to bring a country's institutions, leaders and experts together around its own priorities, with a coordinating desk, a model of its systems, a portfolio of priorities and three participation pillars. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) provides the technical backbone and supports formation; the country holds the agenda, the data and the decisions. Return to How Nexus Consortium works.
- 01In briefThe short answer
- 02ArchitectureThe parts of a national programme
- 03ParticipationThree pillars, each with its own member
- 04AccountabilitiesWho answers for what
- 05Key termsTerms used on this page
- 06StatusNo national programme is recorded as active
GCRI · Institution · service level R0
The short answer.
National Nexus is the complete country operating programme of Nexus Consortiums: nationally owned, technically supported and comparable across borders. It is designed to bring a country's institutions, leaders and experts together around its own priorities, with a National Desk, a National Model, a National Portfolio and three participation pillars; no national programme is recorded as active.
Systemic exposure in the Black Sea region.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, shown for the Black Sea region as an example geography for this subject.
The parts of a national programme.
| Part | What it does | Page |
|---|---|---|
| National Desk | Coordination, routing, cadence, records and continuity for the country programme. | National Desk |
| Formation | From exploration to a constituted programme, with a formation dossier. | Formation pathway |
| National Model | A governed representation of the country's systems, dependencies, evidence and uncertainty. | National Model |
| National Portfolio | Linked views of risks, capabilities, innovation, projects, research and handoffs. | National Portfolio |
Three pillars, each with its own member.
National Nexus Consortium (NNC)
The institution is the member, taking part through constituency councils. See Institutional participation.
National Leadership Council (NLC)
The selected individual is the member, in personal capacity. See Leadership pathway.
National Working Groups (NWG)
Assignments follow competence, with supervision and no fee for ordinary participation. See Working groups.
Who answers for what.
- Competent National Nexus structures hold the national agenda and local participation; national ownership precedes federation.
- GCRI answers for evidence, methods and technical assistance within agreed scopes and rights.
- Official decisions and execution remain with the relevant government, operator or licensed institution.
- A national host or lead organization acts under its own agreement with GCRI Canada and never replaces it as contracting party.
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 |
|---|---|
| National Nexus Consortium | In the Consortium's national model, the body through which a country's institutions take part in Nexus work, formed under a national record with its own leadership and working groups. |
| National Leadership Council | In the national model, the leadership body that sets a country programme's priorities and answers for its conduct, convened under written rules. |
| National working group | A team formed within a national programme to deliver one defined piece of work, under terms of reference and a workplan, with no authority beyond them. |
| 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. |
No national programme is recorded as active.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. No country is shown with an active programme until a record supports it, and a research profile is not a constituted programme. Countries considering a programme can start with a country programme enquiry. The Global Risks Forum (GRF) describes national participation from its side on National and regional participation.
Questions and answers.
Who owns a National Nexus programme?
Do governments have to buy membership?
Is the National Desk a government office?
What does a country receive first?
Which countries have programmes today?
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.