Countries and research profiles
The research scope of Nexus Consortiums covers the 193 United Nations member states and the two observer states, grouped into six programme regions. The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI) keeps a factual research profile for each country in scope. A profile is a starting point for research and enquiries. It is not a constituted national programme, an office, a government relationship or an endorsement, and each profile states its programme state explicitly. Return to How Nexus Consortium works.
- 01In briefThe short answer
- 02CoverageSix regions, with overlaps where geography requires
- 03ProfileWhat a country research profile holds
- 04StatesSeparate states, never merged into one label
- 05Key termsTerms used on this page
- 06EnquiriesCountry desks and eligibility
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The short answer.
Country research profiles are GCRI's factual starting points for research and enquiries on each country in the research scope of Nexus Consortiums, the UN member states and observer states grouped into six regions. A profile is not a constituted national programme, an office, a government relationship or an endorsement, and each state of a country is shown separately.
Systemic exposure in the Caribbean.
Where people and networks concentrate, the exposure through which shocks travel between systems, shown for the Caribbean as an example geography for this subject.
Six regions, with overlaps where geography requires.
- AfricaCountries in scope54
- Asia and the PacificCountries in scope38
- Europe and EurasiaCountries in scope54, including the Holy See as an observer state
- Latin America and the CaribbeanCountries in scope33
- Middle East and North AfricaCountries in scope19, including the State of Palestine as an observer state
- North AmericaCountries in scope3
Geography is a set of relationships, not territorial ownership. North African states sit in both Africa and the Middle East and North Africa, and Mexico in both North America and Latin America and the Caribbean. Other jurisdictions take part through the arrangements that apply to them.
What a country research profile holds.
- 01
Systems context
Material water, energy, food, health, biodiversity and infrastructure systems, with sources and evidence labels.
- 02
Shared dependencies
Basins, grids, corridors and digital links shared with neighbours, from the regional programme.
- 03
Evidence gaps
What is unknown or unreported, shown as missing rather than as zero.
- 04
Programme state
One explicit state from the programme state machine, with the record behind it.
Separate states, never merged into one label.
Each country carries separate states for research coverage, institutional formation, programme delivery, infrastructure binding and publication. A country can have research coverage before any national structure is formed. The states and their evidence rules are explained on Programme status, and the path from exploration to a constituted programme on Formation pathway.
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 |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| Programme status | The recorded state of a programme on Nexus pages: exploring, forming, constituted, active, paused or archived. A plan is never presented as an activity. |
| Official statistics | Statistics produced by national statistical systems under professional and legal standards. |
Country desks and eligibility.
Country enquiries go to the country desk address shown on each profile, or to the Secretariat at contact@therisk.global. Programme engagement follows the sanctions and eligibility policy of Nexus Foundry, which screens against measures of the United Nations Security Council, Canada, the United States and the European Union; where engagement is not available, no desk or call to action is offered. Financial perspectives on countries are published separately by The Global Risks Alliance (GRA) on its country financial perspectives page.
Questions and answers.
Does a profile mean GCRI works in that country?
Are countries ranked?
How can a government correct its profile?
How does a country start a national programme?
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.