The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Country work of Biotechnology and Biosecurity, linked to national programmes and the national source register. Country pages show only work that a programme record supports.
Fig.A programme from scoping to the owner's decision. Design, not a record.
Biotechnology and Biosecurity country applications are the national parts of its work on health and biosecurity, each linked to a national programme and the national source register. A country page shows only work that a programme record supports, and the national institutions own the question, the data and the decision.
For country applications, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on population density, true-colour imagery and night lights with place names and borders from NASA GIBS, framed on West Africa; 3 further NASA layers wait in the list.
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For country applications, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on population density, true-colour imagery and night lights with place names and borders from NASA GIBS, framed on West Africa; 3 further NASA layers wait in the list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
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Design-build-test biology and safeguards.
Industrial biology and production systems.
Health innovation and evaluation.
Food system applications and environmental effects.
Accidental, natural and deliberate biological risks.
Research environment controls and governance.
| Instrument | Usually held by | Evidence it needs |
|---|---|---|
| Biosafety and biosecurity regulation | Health or science ministries | Inventory of oversight bodies and practice |
| Laboratory oversight | Biosafety committees | Adoption of biorisk standards |
| Countermeasure preparedness | Health ministries | Manufacturing and regulatory capacity |
Programmes are listed as exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. Country and regional entries appear when a programme record supports them.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| National portfolio | The set of programmes, projects and evidence a country maintains in the Nexus network, each with its owner, status and records. |
| Country systems | A government's own budget, procurement, financial management and reporting systems, used by donors when they deliver through them. |
| Biosecurity | Measures that prevent the loss, theft, misuse or deliberate release of pathogens and toxins. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
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.