Working groups
The National Working Groups (NWG) carry out the expert work of a National Nexus programme. Experts, practitioners, students and volunteers take on bounded, supervised assignments, each with stated prerequisites, review points and closure criteria. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) supports the working groups with methods, tools and supervision standards. Assignments follow competence, ordinary participation has no fee and no one takes a task they are not qualified for. Return to National Nexus.
- Institution
- The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
- Service level
- R0: information and enquiries
Country programme console
Working groups · Country programme A · Month 4
Programme
- Formationdossier
- National Deskstaffed
- National Modelbuild
- Portfoliooptions
- Annual missiontest
- Reportedition
System coupling
dependency strength, 0 to 100
Placeholder strengths a National Model replaces with estimates.
Evidence ledger
| Reservoir storage | OBSERVED | National Desk |
| Hydropower output | MODELLED | Technical office |
| Grid stress | SCENARIO | Technical office |
| Hospital continuity | ESTIMATED | Health ministry |
GCRI · Country programme consoleCountry programme console, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
The short answer.
The National Working Groups (NWG) carry out the expert work of a National Nexus programme through bounded, supervised assignments for experts, practitioners, students and volunteers, each with prerequisites, review points and closure criteria. GCRI supports them with methods, tools and supervision standards, and assignments follow competence; no working group is constituted yet.
Systemic exposure in the contiguous United States.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, shown for the contiguous United States as an example geography for this subject.
How an assignment works.
- 01
Explore work calls
Current work calls state the task, prerequisites and expected time.
- 02
Competence and availability
Contributors are matched on competence and availability.
- 03
Bounded assignment
Each assignment has a supervisor, review points and closure criteria.
- 04
Review and record
Work is reviewed and kept as a contribution record.
- 05
Recognition and next step
Recognition and the next assignment follow the record.
Four kinds of contributor.
Senior experts
Domain specialists, reviewers and technical leads.
Practitioners
Operators and professionals bringing working knowledge.
Students and early-career researchers
Supervised tasks with a mentor and a learning plan.
Volunteers
Safe, bounded tasks with clear supervision.
Supervision and fair terms.
- Ordinary participation has no fee. Paid work, internships and fellowships are separate arrangements.
- Unqualified contributors never take safety-critical tasks, and no one gets an unsupervised high-consequence assignment.
- Six domain response teams sit under the working groups for preparedness, observation, verification, mapping, exercises and learning. They are not emergency services or incident command.
- Safeguarding concerns use a restricted route.
Typical kinds of assignment.
Assignments come from the national agenda and the year's missions. They include source qualification and data stewardship, mapping and geospatial analysis, model building and testing, literature and evidence review, exercise support and observation, and drafting sections of country editions for review. Each assignment states the competence it requires and how the work will be reviewed.
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 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. |
| Terms of reference | The document that defines an assignment's objectives, scope, deliverables, counterpart, acceptance criteria and reserved decisions. |
| Competence framework | A structured description of the skills and knowledge a role requires, such as ESCO. |
No working group is constituted.
No national programme is recorded as constituted or active, so no country's desk, model or portfolio is shown as operating. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. Contributors can register interest at experts@therisk.global; see also Experts, volunteers and students. Safeguarding concerns go to safeguarding@therisk.global. The communities run by The Global Risks Forum (GRF) for experts are on Experts and working communities.
Questions and answers.
Do I have to pay to join a working group?
Will I be paid?
How much time does an assignment take?
Do the response teams respond to emergencies?
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.