Decide
The decision belongs to the competent authority or institution, under its own rules. GCRI's part ends at handing over evidence, options and their limits in a form the decision-holder can use and others can audit.
- Institution
- The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
- Service level
- R0: information and enquiries
Action week
Nexus Universe · GCRI · Week 27
Tracks
controlled sessions
Observer notes
- O-1Escalation path unclear between cellsTrack 14 h
- O-2Data hand-off worked as designedTrack 21 h
- O-3Public message drafted before verificationTrack 34 h
GCRI · Action weekAction week, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
The short answer.
Decide is step seven of the eight-step Nexus cycle: the step at which competent authorities and institutions decide under their own rules, with handoffs through Nexus Rails. It is owned by competent authorities and institutions, with handoffs through Nexus Rails. At this step GCRI hands evidence to competent authorities, which decide under their own rules, and the decision at the end of the cycle stays with the competent authority.
Systemic exposure in Nigeria.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, shown for Nigeria as an example geography for this subject.
Each pillar's contribution.
What a decision-holder receives.
| Item | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| The question as framed, with its criteria | So the decision-holder can see whether it was the right question |
| Options with consequences and uncertainty | Decision analysis compares options, it does not choose among them |
| Evidence labels and limits | So a modelled result is not acted on as an observation |
| What would change the answer | Triggers for revisiting the decision as monitoring data arrive |
Under the Sendai Framework, disaster risk governance is a national responsibility shared with local government and other stakeholders. Evidence from the cycle feeds that governance; it does not substitute for it.
Nexus Rails records who decided what.
Where a competent body chooses to record a decision taken on cycle evidence, the record names the body, the mandate, the date and the evidence version it relied on. That record is what makes the renew step possible: when the evidence is corrected, the decisions that relied on it can be found. Authenticated is not authorized, and an analyst's access to a build gives no decision right.
Then: renew.
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 |
|---|---|
| Competent authority | The body that a law or regulation designates to exercise a given power or duty, such as a supervisor, a civil protection agency or a ministry; only it can take the decisions the law assigns to it. |
| Lawful handover | Transfer of assets, records and responsibilities to a receiving institution with signed acceptance. |
| Decision rights matrix | A table showing which body proposes, approves, executes and oversees each decision. |
Where this page's references lead.
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
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.